First Citizens Bank reviews

My previous employer was acquired by FCB and within a month I noticed a negative change in the trajectory. Incoming execs did not prioritize open door policy or process improvement, work load was raised and the teams became smaller because they found the smallest reasons to fire people. The overall culture was a 180 from CIT Rail and it was FCB that rolled out a Return To Office policy. I love going to the office but I was the only one there most days. It was all dependent on your manager and mine seemed to think it was a good idea for me to take a train downtown 3x a week instead of working 100% remotely like my entire team was allowed to do. I never received clean responses to some similar questions. It was dependent of your relationship with your boss essentially. Mine was a fan of me and I hope I never work with anyone like her in any capacity esp a manager. Communication within my team was not a priority for our boss, I felt like we were planets orbiting around the same sun, being her, and any type of collaborative efforts or communication regarding internal issues were not encouraged. Questions of any kind were frowned upon and worked against me so I felt restricted in expanding my skill.

Very archaic way of thinking - banking of 1990s rather than present day. There is a very down south way of thinking and how employees are treated. HR is virtually non-existent and very generic when do they decide to engage. There’s no trust - everyone is very much “everyone for themselves” and since they are still in the throes of integrating with another institution, there is constant shifts in staff, lots of layoffs and an overall sense of instability and the brown nosing from middle managers is nothing short of disgusting. The vibe feels toxic and unauthentic, promises either take forever to come to fruition to the point that you’re constantly feeling demotivated or do not materialize at all. Be careful who you trust, what you say and to whom. In many cases even your own manager cannot be trusted - they definitely know more than they are letting on to.