Citizens reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(4,788 total reviews)
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Bruce Van Saun

85% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Citizens has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,788 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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3.0
Mar 26, 2015

They have lost their way

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Pros

Some of the people are very dedicated and really care about employees and customers.

Cons

Top of the house managers have forgotten what makes a company good and just want to see profit at any cost. Working with skeleton crews but tripled goals. Very unrealistic expectations. Have seen high turnover.

1.0
Feb 18, 2015

Sinking ship

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Pros

1) Better than being unemployed. 2) You'll be much more appreciative when you get a good job

Cons

Despite having a commendable value statement ('the credo'), this business only values money. Staff, customers, compliance with banking regs will all be thrown under the bus in order to make budget. I saw so many great people, in what were key roles laid-off to hit year- end targets it was ridiculous. Some roles inevitably had to back-filled, normally this would be by less-experienced, lower-paid staff. Lay-offs could happen at any time of the year, so you never have job security. The regulatory fines were eye-watering, but despite promise-on-promise that things would change, there were always more fines.

2.0
Dec 17, 2014
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Pros

Job security (for branch employees), excellent resume item.

Cons

Exhaustive hours, unrealistic goals, berating for things out of employee's control, nepotism, lack of confidentiality when giving feedback, no support/safety from management or the company w/ hostile customers, rewards to customers for bad and abusive behavior, threats to your employment when "negative" things are talked about or you want to give feedback, excessive micromanagement, expectation to compromise ethic for the sake of making a sale, branch managers lie to staff to serve their interests (time off policies, goals, ethics & practices, scheduling, etc).

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