At Harris, status-quo is the way to go. - Anonymous employee BMO US Employee Review

3.0
Apr 27, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is good, benefits are great. Customers are generally easy-going as Harris has somewhat of a community bank feel, despite its size. The job is easy.

Cons

Advancement is based almost entirely on the amount of time you've worked there. The payscale system is set up so that it's nearly impossible to jump ranks. You have to work your way up one step at a time. The payscale also lends itself to promoting people who don't necessarily deserve it. New ideas and initiative play second fiddle to the status-quo. Upper management seems oblivious to what the competition is doing outside of Bank of America and Chase. It doesn't matter if smaller banks are innovating and taking away market share, BofA and Chase seem to be the only banks Harris tries to compete with. Technology is awful. We look up account info on 25 year old software. Everything else lags behind other banks by at least 7 years.

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