Pros
- Well compensated, with competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package - Growing company with a strong business model: Community bank but for the affluent - Worked with experienced, intelligent credit managers, relationship managers, and line staff - though I did not like all of them personally, I grew to respect just about everyone I worked with at FRB.
Cons
- Leadership caters to relationship managers above everyone else; definitely feels like a hierarchy in which everyone is in service to the sales people. As a result, quite a few of the RMs are high-maintenance egomaniacs. - Lack of management support: regional sales director could not control the RMs under her; support staff were overworked and castigated for not meeting deadlines and/or making errors. - Poor approach to training new employees: I witnessed managers and line staff either refuse to train others or else train others (me) poorly. It felt like my manager and coworker jealously guarded knowledge because they feared training others would threaten their job security. - Although one of the company's values is "have fun", the pressure to underwrite and process a high volume of complex transactions on a regular basis - with little to no management support at times - limits one's ability to do so.