Citizens reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(4,790 total reviews)
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Bruce Van Saun

85% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Citizens has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,790 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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5K reviews
2.0
Oct 19, 2013

pay well

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

pay well great people to work with

Cons

promise growth that never happens

1.0
Oct 10, 2013

Will chew you up and spit you out.

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Large bonuses. Occasionally, some very nice and genuine people.

Cons

Sales managers and upper-level state directors only value the numbers you are producing. All the rhetoric they give is regurgitated propaganda they learned in a coaching training session but have no real idea how to use. They are always behind the times with technology and have no value for the individual employee. The term "colleague" is a joke. Management will write you up in a heartbeat rather than coach you. The company is run by gossipy senior management that revels in the failures of others.

1.0
Oct 8, 2013

Crisis Management Everyday

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

-Good paid time off allowance -comprehensive benefits plan (medical, dental, etc.)

Cons

-Branches in constant turmoil due to high turnover, poor morale, and serious understaffing -Top heavy with middle and senior management clueless and out of touch with the front lines -Over the top aggressive, unethical sales environment -Bank hostile to older workers who feel forced out, replaced with younger colleagues less knowledgable and unprofessional -Bank subject of at least two class action lawsuits for violations of fair labor practices -Traditional branch colleagues are not cross trained which creates disconnect with in-store branches -Bureaucratic and micro-managed branch environment which fosters favoritism and other cliques -Human Resources department very lackluster, poor on-boarding process, new hires not properly trained -Very poor pay package especially for Bankers, Teller Mangers, and Tellers, not competitive with other financial institutions -Incentive program changes on "which direction the wind blows", sales goals unrealistic, goals should be eliminated and payouts based on customer satisfaction scores that are fair and accurate -Constant cutbacks including branches now cleaned twice a week, yet bank spends money hand over fist on marketing brochures, materials, etc. that get thrown out! -Wants to go paperless yet introduces more paper everyday with mindless trackers, sheets, graphs, you name it, all part of what they call Branch Transformation -Excessive e-mails, endless conference calls

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