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4.5

80% would recommend to a friend

(1,368 total reviews)
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Mike Roffler

58% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

First Republic has an employee rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,368 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The First Republic employee rating is 21% above average for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
2.0
Sep 3, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, good employee stock purchase plan, few positions require more than 50 hrs a week.

Cons

Once you get above entry level and early career jobs, it becomes ULTRA political and the culture is very cult like, you better have your pom poms on most of the time. The place is really Jim Herbert's kingdom. While he seems like a decent person, he has little knowledge of anything below his circle of confidants. The most highly valued jobs there were sales/relationship mgmt jobs, and to some extent cyber security jobs, anything else seemed to be considered an operational/regulatory necessity that just cost money. Little value was placed on the money those roles saved the bank. The bank's entire business model is to serve the interests of the ultra wealthy and the mass affluent. If you need your work to have more meaning than just collecting a paycheck, you might not want to work here. If you do work at FRB, know that success is equally (if not more so) dependent on how politically strong your manager is, and how you buy-into the culture, than it is on your objective work product and abilities.

1.0
Jan 1, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They have an Eagle Cafe with some pretty decent subsidized meals.

Cons

Before I joined the company, I read so many great things about their culture and success. When I started working for the company, I was immediately shocked that a company of 33 years would have such a lack of infrastructure and training. I worked there for almost a year, and the longer I was there the more and more I realized how toxic the leadership was in this company. The situations that occur here are worthy of HR complaints, but HR cannot and will not save you. They all support the toxic system that exists in this bank. There are better places to work than here. Don't waste your time.

1.0
Nov 15, 2018

IS / IT is a joke; avoid like plague

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Extremely slow place so never in a rush - Everyone is decently nice face to face. - Non-Technical teams have great benefits - Always hiring - Sometimes they put an effort in doing the right thing - InfoSec is overly paranoid - Heavy company culture, the Kool-Aid runs deep if you're looking for a family or a place to end your career.

Cons

- If you're in IS/IT pay is 15-25% less then other companies, way below market value - If you're an engineer, developer, anything techie benefits are the worst then any in the Valley, literally no point in even trying here. - Stock options are zero unless you have the word "Manager" or "Director" or "Vice" - Everyone is HEAVILY silo'd like enough where they openingly say it's your problem - InfoSec is overly paranoid, enough to get in the way of day-to-day work - Seriously a joke, no standards or backbone - Leadership changes every quarter - Scape goating the nearest contractor is funny and heavily depressing at the same time - Encourages to work more then living life - Diversity is a joke, literally 75% old white males - Using old, dated technology and application to save pennies - aka Tech Dept is deeper then the Great Depression

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