CoBank reviews

3.1

54% would recommend to a friend

(324 total reviews)
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Thomas Halverson

72% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

CoBank has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 324 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CoBank employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.6 stars).

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324 reviews
3.0
May 6, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

CoBank has a great company mission and family-friendly culture. Benefits are good. Remote work has become much more accepted with time. The culture being brought in IT with the new management is vastly different than what it used to be and what it is outside of IT.

Cons

If you are in IT, be mindful of the big changes that have come since late 2023. Many people were laid off in 2024 to accommodate the new structure. The plan is to build new and move away from systems that are currently widely used. The frustrating thing for is for end users may not have the support they need for IT applications that they are still using on a regular basis. And the people supporting current applications are spread very thin and expected to support these while building new ones.

2.0
Apr 4, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good location, good benefits, decent compensation

Cons

IT is stuck in the dark-ages. If you're looking for a time-warp to the 90s (yes, brush-up on your AS/400) this is your place. If you even know what container/microservices are- you're going to have a bad time here. IT leadership seems to get it, but moving our stack into this decade isn't possible given how backwards PM/LOB/Governance leadership is.

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CoBank Response
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We appreciate that you took the time to write us a review and mention some of the positive things about CoBank. As with all of our departments, our IT teams and leaders are working hard to always improve how we do our work in support of our mission to serve rural America. If you would like to share more about your experience, please let us know (feedback@cobank.com.)
1.0
Jun 30, 2017

Disease in IT

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Stable company due to niche in the marketplace Trying to do it correctly in one area of the organization, but even that area is facing issues due to upper managements' inability to change.

Cons

- New management comes in and supports the VP direction of rail roading employees that challenge VPs outdated perspectives and outdated processes - Based on past glass door reviews of male dominance, IT has knee jerked its way into hiring and promoting women rather than hiring and promoting the RIGHT PERSON. - Command and control management unable to lead. - New people bosses brought in to follow the command and control and inefficient, inadequate, and poor knee jerk decisions made by VP. - Unorganized and poorly organized below the CIO - not based on business streams. - Old processes retained to a fault, bosses command and have little to zero knowledge of systems, systems are outdated and knowledge continues to leave the building. - Bosses say they are, 'servant leaders', throw around phrases and words but fail to act upon those statements. As ex CEO, Bob Engel put it, "...audio does not match the video." - Little to zero value of new management. Contributors continue to be expected to do more with less, and then get poor ratings based upon being overworked, false representation of facts to which HR does nothing and claims ignorance towards, and frustration builds to the point of passionate people venting and then being reprimanded. - Nothing is being done to address poor management. HR does nothing to find the truth. They merely listen to those with titles, and tell the employees that their, "...hands are tied." HR is terrible with conflict. They run a fear based organization which in turn has a fear based management and ego based managers. Do not challenge those with titles because you will find yourself labeled a troublemaker and black balled. - Continue to pay poorly and then give bonuses to meet market. Hang carrots in front of employees to motivate them rather than focusing on continuous improvement to make individual contributors' day to day efficient. - Individual contributors do not speak up for fear of being reprimanded. - Management loves to manipulate to get what they want. Have no trust in those doing the work. Say one thing one day and then do another the next. No strategy. No leadership. Zero planning. - Blame game is in full affect. Watch yourself! - Training is years behind - Technology is trying catch up, but unable to change due to poor organizational change management which they claim to be working on.

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