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Golden 1 Credit Union

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Terrible management and above - Lending Manager Golden 1 Credit Union Employee Review

1.0
Jun 13, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Some positions are work from home but VERY micromanaged

Cons

Very political and mean girl status. Constantly walking on egg shells and afraid you will be fired any day no matter how great of a performer you are. Management fires people so they can hire friends/family. Salary is NOT competitive for back office. Such a toxic work environment your mental health suffers significantly. HR employees are such “mean girls” they purposely make employees cry, gas light them and then laugh about the employees in meetings later. There is no such thing as work life balance. They want you to live, breath and eat Golden1. Good luck trying to get a time off request approved! Salary employees are treated like work slaves. Expected to work excessive amounts of hours with near impossible deadlines. And no matter how great your work is, they will find a way to pick you and your work apart. A great way to describe their behavior is very narcissistic.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 14, 2026
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Pros

The pay is decent and there are some very skilled people working in the department.

Cons

The workloads are unrealistic at times particularly when someone is out of office for an extended period of time. Month end tends to be very busy and you will be expected to work additional hours most days if you are salaried. Management attitude shifted in the last few years. Performance expectations are very subjected and higher ratings are gated across the organization with the highest level being essentially out of reach for non leadership positions. Many talented people have recently left the department in a short period of time causing workloads to be redistributed rather than seeking new staff in a timely manner. A large number of key department processes sit with a single person with minimal at best documentation of their procedures. You may be expected to reverse engineer some of the annual or quarterly processes with minimal guidance after seeing the process one once or twice.

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Golden 1 Credit Union Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience. We appreciate your recognition of the skilled individuals across the team. We value hearing feedback on workload, process and performance expectations to help inform ongoing discussions about how we can continue to evolve and improve the employee experience. Thank you again for contributing to the conversation.
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