KeyCorp is a company with great potential. - Relationship Manager KeyBank Employee Review

4.0
Sep 8, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

KeyCorp provided a professional atmosphere with great compensation and benefits. Work/Life Balance was never an issue, personal life is important to professional life. Training was fun, relevant and easy to do. I loved the flexibility of working with KeyCorp, as long as you were producing and helping the bottom line. It was easy to ask senior management questions via the "Wikey". The blogs helped to promote conversation among colleagues. I felt proud to work for a company with the reputation that KeyCorp has. They have been in business for a long time, which made me feel that they are a stable company that has weathered many financial storms.

Cons

Communication was an issue between leadership levels and different departments. Sometimes I wondered if the senior management team really understood the market that we were working in. You really had to pay attention to what was NOT said to get anything out of the announcements or town hall meetings. It was such a large company, that it was hard to really get to know people. Turnover was high too; I believe it was a 2 year average. The organizational chart seemed to change on a monthly basis, not just lower level positions but, managerial positions. KeyCorp seems to buy companies and then lets that company run the show; one would think that it was the other way around. This company has so much potential, but just as soon as it feels that all is going well, one small detail was overlooked, or some small organizational change was made and it affects the bottom line in such a significant way that downsizing has to occur.

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Cons

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Pros

Generous PTO allowance; Get to build relationships with local customers. Can be a great company to work for so long as you are not in the Eastern PA region. Key Bank's acquisition of First Niagara Bank (FNB) in Eastern PA left a void in regards to lack of consistency in executing Key Bank company culture and leadership in the acquired Eastern PA region, which functioned as a hybrid of Key Bank's culture & processes, as well as old FNB culture & processes.

Cons

Forced to spend too much time focusing on checking account openings, credit card applications, and work on the teller line. Management expects you to focus more on getting a client to a certain wellness score as a metric versus being given the time to perform an in-depth financial planing analysis for each client. Getting clients to discuss their investment portfolio outside the bank takes time and relationship building. Management expects you to push products and advice in such a way that you are performing immediately to the role's metrics versus being given the time to build relationships, which not only takes time, but typically has very large rewards by way of significant investment & insurance business. Management exprects an SLRM to put way more focus on the branch's banking needs and doesn't probvide the time and proper resources needed to acquire & properly service investment clients. Branch management encourages predatory behavior among the floor sales team instead of working with a team approach. Referrals from tellers and Personal Bankers are highly depended on how competitive the branch environment is versus a "There's no 'I' in team" approach.

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