Associated Bank reviews

Turnover is high in branch management and other positions. I'm not sure why but I guess everyone wants to get paid more and that keeps the turn rate fairly high. As with any job your direct supervisor or manager can make it a great place to work or a not so great place to work. If you get a bad manager just hold on for a year or two and they generally move on. Another annoyance is that we were told to start unlocking the doors early and leave then unlocked late so that customers can get there early and stay late. I understand that you want to be flexible but that is what ATM machines are for. Customers could pick up the phone and make an appointment or let us know they were running late and we would accommodate without having everyone stick around on a daily basis. Commission structures are always changing. Sometimes they are obtainable and other times they are impossible to meet.

- Compensation is bottom rung. I was embarrassed with some of the salaries that I had to offer to new employees. - Little effort spent on Marketing in the Minnesota market. - Verint scheduling system runs staffing like a joke. One teller and one banker? This delivers poor service to customers when everything is in DUAL CONTROL and you constantly have insufficient staffing. Couldn't schedule a vacation without worrying about coverage. - Lower Management is terrible. My exempt managers rarely put in close to 30 hours per week. Constantly lying about "business appointments". - People are WAY too involved in each other's personal lives. It makes it really uncomfortable. - I had a DM that was sneaking around with someone in facilities (both married employees)... closed door meetings for 3+ hours... (shaking my head) - People are constantly leaving and moving positions. Never the same face in the same place for more than 3 months at a time. - Very political. Unnecessarily so. If you weren't liked, you had no potential of upward movement. - Although training programs are steller at Associated, good luck getting to training. - HR departments are biased towards Senior Management and tends to side with them on many pressing issues.