Citizens reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(4,794 total reviews)
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Bruce Van Saun

84% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Citizens has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,794 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Citizens employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
May 30, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Let's be serious here. Have you talked to anyone who works at citizens bank and they tell you they don't like it? Well that's because the bank forbids it. I have had the worst experience here at this bank. They treat people like machines and then don't pay you your proper Incentives. They call it a bonus/incentive. If you have a good manager like I did before my transfer then you'll probably love working here.

Cons

The systems are terribly slow and dated. They claim to spend millions on technologies but employees don't see it. The goals expectations are seriously flawed and the bank does not care about you or its customers it's all about the numbers. They have shrunk down so many departments and it makes stressful to focus on the client in front of you especially if you need help wait times are forever long. They make you call people at dinner time to try to get them to come in for investment or just try to sell you anything to keep upper management from coming down on the managers. They claim to be paperless? I don't know from where? We shred so much wasted paper on "know me and know me more and all this crap the bank doesn't need to be wasting so much then in turn charged customers for statement and delivery. If your a universal banker your basically everything but 100% teller but still have high banker goals. They will have you working your tail off to point that you just leave the company or if they don't like you they will make your life miserable intentionally. I have seen some of the best talent leave our branches because they demand more than they give you in return. The branches now operate on P&L everyone is expected to have knowledge on this to fully understand how to truly operate this way. Not all employees understand how this works and it's not there fault, when your employer doesn't give you tools to grow an understand you fail! This company does not offer any job security at all! Constantly on edge and always feeling stressed.

1.0
May 30, 2015

The Worst!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Used to be a great bank and company to work for. Separating from RBS will give CFG the opportunity to make itself great if it can focus on real customer satisfaction, employee fairness and teamwork

Cons

Been with the Bank 11 years and it is time to go. Senior Management especially in the Risk organization are clueless to what regulatory compliance means. Bringing in many from the outside who are not invested in the Bank verses focusing on leveraging the talent of current colleagues. Read a post from someone working in No Smithfield which says colleagues need to be ready for change and transformation. This may lead you to believe colleagues aren't. In my experience that is not true. Most colleagues are invested in the Bank's success, work VERY hard and are extremely talented. This is an exciting time for the Bank but can we transform without having dead colleague bodies along the way?

3.0
May 29, 2015

Relationship Manager

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people and great reputation in the community. Local bank reputation with big bank capabilities.

Cons

too early to tell...only 6 months in

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