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First Citizens Bank

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Unhealthy work environment with low morale - Senior Vice President First Citizens Bank Employee Review

1.0
Apr 29, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Not many. The bank does have a strong financial position; however, ownership does not offer stock or similar LTI as the bank is ultimately family owned.

Cons

I do not recommend working here as it is a dysfunctional, hostile work environment. Employees are constantly on edge and are undervalued, unappreciated and as a result unmotivated. As an empathetic and motivational leader, I was chastised by Senior management who wanted me to micro-manage and demoralize my team. HR is extremely biased towards Senior leadership and effectively works against the average employee. While there are pockets of good people, overall leadership is authoritarian and manipulates employees into doubting their own perceptions or concerns. They also lack accountability and blame others for their failures, play favorites and gaslight good employees.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
May 7, 2026
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Pros

Solid pay, comp structure Many good co-workers/partners Some flexibility in your day-to day

Cons

Nonstop Work Little to none support/training Mediocre at best management Numbers, numbers, and numbers is all they care about Headed down the path of Chase, Wells, BofA in a bad way of growing but looking at numbers nonstop and profits so they don’t care about employees or customers.

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