Deutsche Bank reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(12,877 total reviews)
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85% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Deutsche Bank has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 12,877 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Deutsche Bank 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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13K reviews
1.0
Aug 4, 2016

Buyer's Remorse

Recommend
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Pros

If there are pros for the firm, it's few and far between. The best thing about the New York office is a small pocket of employees who are new to the firm that actually try to make a difference. While they are a small force, the frustration increases day by day. It is a common to say "we're up a creek without a paddle".

Cons

Two words can pretty much summarize the firm - accountability and fragmentation. The culture, at least in the NYC office, is one of political finger pointing which lead to a lack of accountability by mid-level and senior managers. This lack of accountability even for simple concepts such as "best practices" is affected by this culture. This also leads to fragmentation - everyone out for themselves instead of helping to improve the culture and the current state of the firm.

2.0
Jul 11, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

There are a lot of opportunities to stand out, and there is much redundancy and bad code code to fix in this industry, as well as a surprising amount of manual Excel-drivel processes to convert into software applications. Good place to improve your skills at things like backend Java.

Cons

Horribly bureaucratic place to work. You are told when to come in, how to dress, how to conduct your meetings. You spend an obscene amount of your day obtaining approvals to deliver your code from people you will never meet. You are surrounded by people who afraid to speak up because they are on Visas. It is apparent that kissing up to superiors is common. If you actually accomplish something good, your managers acts as if it's no big whoop; if you are slightly late, they are all over you. They think that pointing out faults is "mentoring and coaching". You see managers telling their employees exactly how to do something, even though they are professionals who can figure it out. I'm one more than one occasion, I was upset that my manager was talking to me like I was a little kid. On some teams, work from home is discouraged so there's less flexibility than at other places. There are no offices or cubicles, though the workspace is nice and resembles that of a startup. Although some people are happy because they got started on a good team, your experience will vary with what team you end up on. If you come from a technology company proper, you may not like it here (unless the work you did there was boring). Bonuses have traditionally been good, but now this will change due to recent moves by the company.

2.0
Jun 16, 2016

Associate

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great health benefits, a lot of paid vacation and paid holidays, great benefits for military and expecting families, mediocre tuition reimbursement.

Cons

Poor culture, lack of employee development and invest in employees future growth. Lack on additional training. Poor team building. Salary structure is not transparent and lack of appropriate rewards and bonuses.

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