First Republic reviews

- Leadership caters to relationship managers above everyone else; definitely feels like a hierarchy in which everyone is in service to the sales people. As a result, quite a few of the RMs are high-maintenance egomaniacs. - Lack of management support: regional sales director could not control the RMs under her; support staff were overworked and castigated for not meeting deadlines and/or making errors. - Poor approach to training new employees: I witnessed managers and line staff either refuse to train others or else train others (me) poorly. It felt like my manager and coworker jealously guarded knowledge because they feared training others would threaten their job security. - Although one of the company's values is "have fun", the pressure to underwrite and process a high volume of complex transactions on a regular basis - with little to no management support at times - limits one's ability to do so.

My role was not very challenging, engaging, or exciting. Going above and beyond my role, though I was trying to be helpful to the company, often worked against me. Stay in your lane, do exactly as you are told, and nothing else.. not a great place for innovators. Don't try to change the system. Very outdated technology. Though few and far between, certain people and teams are extremely oppressive and even demeaning. I had some very heated "discussions" with certain individuals where I was lampooned for things that were outside of my control. Some teams are ruled with an iron fist by bosses who are extremely harsh behind closed doors.. I heard of more than one instance where certain superiors made their employees cry with demeaning, unnecessary comments, which I find extremely inappropriate, especially for a brand that tries so hard to appear friendly and accessible to clients. The high stress put on certain teams takes its toll and drains the life from those individuals, who are, sadly, some of the highest performing employees in the company. I saw and heard of many quitting, being fired, or moving away from these toxic environments as quickly as they could. In these few teams, people feel that they have to take lunch at their desk every day, they cannot take part in social activities, and basically appeared to have terrible work environments. But again, this is only a very select few, all of which were concentrated on the floor where I worked. Everyone else seemed decently happy, sociable, and supported.