BMO US reviews

Problematic managers are tolerated, creating unnecessary damage to morale and environmental quality. While the technology investment has been increased, particularly during the pandemic, there is still a significant functionality gap for key processes. Very disingenuously, salary increases were frozen for 2020 performance year, despite very solid earnings. A huge slap in the face of thousands of employees who went above and beyond to serve clients and keep the business running. Of course, C suite got their raises.

Terrible HR group in Chicago, great divide in opportunities between Canada and the U.S., terrible work environment overall but especially for POC, the total misrepresentation of work in the job description and interview process for the role I applied for and was hired into, significant decentralization and extremely poor organization of work, terrible leadership, the tolerance of extremely unprofessional behavior towards others, putting work fundamentally in the wrong hands, great wall of resistance I encountered as a POC in doing my job and working with people, the obvious and blatant resentment of others to POC having opportunities (as if everyone but the POC got their jobs on merit), to the deep silos and poor skillsets of many of those I worked with , the generally very negative attitude towards POC that I experienced in many forms with many people in the Chicago office - all of these made for the worst work experience I've ever had. That is a comparison I make having worked in more than 5 other companies in my career and, from the outset of my time at BMO, I found the combination of these issues to be truly unique (terrible) and have never experienced anything like it (not even close to anything like it) in all of my years of working.