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First Hawaiian Bank reviews

3.9

66% would recommend to a friend

(262 total reviews)
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Robert S. Harrison

83% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

First Hawaiian Bank has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 262 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The First Hawaiian Bank employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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262 reviews
2.0
Sep 19, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great coworkers you can rely on. They treat you like family. And insurance benefits are pretty good.

Cons

Management acts like a all girl high school clique. The head of the group is the worst. I don't how else to describe it. Sort of like the movie Mean Girls. They will be nice to you to your face but talk about you behind your back. It's fine to form opinions but to openly talk about them to other people and degrade them is wrong and an hr issue. If you have issues with the way certain workers work you should address it privately with the worker. Management is also very quick with pointing all the bad things but will never acknowledge you for anything good. What ever little acknowledgement we had was cut because of stupid budget issues. Honestly it feels like a sweatshop. You are expected to do so much and yet the pay is so little. To top it off you don't have any incentive program. It's very obvious the leaders of this group doesn't know how to run a proper call center. A person with real experience would know how to implement real incentives and know how to acknowledge the workers to show their appreciated. It's the only way to keep your workers motivated to work harder specially if you only give a 2% raise if you get a good review at the end of the year. Call center is a high stress job if management actually handled calls they would realize it.

4.0
Apr 8, 2015

Trust Officer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Exciting position, good senior management, family atmosphere in the office. Good training and excellent benefits.

Cons

Lack of experience in middle managers. Extreme favouritism and lack of consequences for disruptive bullying toxic behaviour when it arose.

3.0
Jul 21, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

First Hawaiian Bank really does take care of their employees. Their benefits package is great, don't have to pay much out of pocker for medical/dental/vision. The teller position is ideal for a student. They are quite flexible with my schedule. If anything, it seemed as if they needed me more than I needed them.

Cons

Pay is quite low compared to industry. Pay raise is even lower, less than one percent, annually. Career progression is slow. The honest truth about FHB is it's all about who you know. I've seen a fair amount of favoritism within the company. FHB is behind on technology, not very innovative.

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