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      First Merchants

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      First Merchants reviews

      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (42 total reviews)
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      Mark K. Hardwick

      71% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.5

      Work/Life balance

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Senior management

      3.0

      Compensation and benefits

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      2.0
      Sep 2, 2015

      Fine for learning banking

      Customer service representative
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Depending on the branch you learn many different things and are able to help customers.

      Cons

      Much of the management staff is not knowledgable about the practices. They promote based on tenure, goals and education. Which is not always a bad thing but can become a bad thing when you have managers who aren't ready to lead, leaders who don't know how to motivate or even give constructive criticism to their employees and managers who want to be best friends with their staff. That's no way to manage and it affects moral. There is no communication from hire ups most times or it takes forever to get responses back. If you work at an in store branch you might as well fend for yourself because you're the "red headed step child" of the company.

      3.0
      Jun 5, 2014

      Inconsistent workplace

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Active in the communities they service, growing bank, leadership in Indiana is accessible and personable. Work-Life balance is good. Benefits as far as time off are very generous. Offer a lot of benefits to help employees save for the future, excellent 401(k) and stock purchase program.

      Cons

      Columbus, OH "leadership" is awful. Stay away unless you want your soul slowly drained. yelling, placing blame, backstabbing, and manipulation are the norm. At times, entire organization moves slowly to embrace changes and advancing with the times. Technology is far behind and allowing certain location to keep their different name does nothing to build one culture.

      2.0
      Mar 26, 2013

      Good professional experience, but very poor work culture.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Working for a bank gave me many opportunities to build my professional résumé, introducing me to the idea of exceptional customer service, exposing me to a world of corporate professionalism and business acumen as well as general corporate business etiquette. The company was very successful during my years there and the benefits offered were exceptional, including educational reimbursement, 3 weeks of vacation time plus 8 days of sick time each year that could accrue if not used. The Chief officers and director of HR were very kind and sincerely wanted their employees to educate themselves and be successful.

      Cons

      The culture was really the down side. A lot of opportunity existed, but it was difficult to perservere through the constant gossip, caddy managers, many of which that were uneducated and insecure about giving those that were educated opportunity in fear that they might be surpassed, consistent micromanagement, and a general anxiety was felt by most employees about changes that occurred. The company was extremely slow to adapt to new technology, I.E. still using Microsoft 2003 in 2012, and slow to adapt to modern industry changes concerning general work force preferences in dress code, working remotely when able, and flexibility in work schedules.

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