Was great at first - Banking Relationship Specialist Bank OZK Employee Review

2.0
Dec 26, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work-life balance, location, paid holidays

Cons

Expected to know more than your job title entails without training. Pay for the positions was a bit lower than average, and you could go to a different bank and make more doing the same thing. Steadily trending towards a sales culture where you'll have to make cold calls. Unfair treatment of an employee by other employees, and when it is taken above managements head after informing them, they pretend as if they didn't know any of it was going on when it was brought to them by several people, and when said management told me personally that the other employee "hated" working with the young lady they were picking on. Manger making excuses for one employee being hostile or mean to another one because, "That's just how she is", or "You know you have to be gentler with her" instead of holding them accountable for their wrongdoings. Manager allowing one employee to scream in another's face and stating, "She gets anxious, and we have to handle her delicately" The company would rather hire outside usually, instead of promoting someone within the company unless you are already pretty high up. There's a lot more that can be said, however, I'd be typing all day.

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5.0
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Pros

Great benefits, decent pay, decent people

Cons

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2.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits and a stable paycheck. There are people here doing genuinely strong work and trying to build things the right way. Some leaders are approachable and mean well.

Cons

Concerns get heard but rarely resolved. You'll get a warm, sympathetic response and then nothing changes. If you raise the same issue again, you get the same warm response again. Job responsibilities tend to grow well past what the role is classified and paid for, with no adjustment in title or compensation to match. Being direct or setting boundaries about workload gets read as a personality problem instead of a legitimate concern. Compensation doesn't always reflect the level of work being done, especially compared to peers doing similar jobs. There's no meaningful career path or growth programming. Something I didn't know before joining, and wish I had, is that the headquarters is essentially an art museum, the bank owns a private collection and gives tours of the building. It's a striking level of investment in physical spaces. In hindsight, that would have prompted me to ask more pointed questions in my interview about employee development and career growth, because that same level of investment doesn't extend to training programs or growth paths for staff. If you're interviewing here, ask specifically what career progression looks like and what's budgeted for employee development, not just what the office looks like.

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