First Western Financial reviews

The only way to describe FW is to say that the inmates are running the asylum. It is everything mentioned in other comments on this forum and more. I can validate after more than a year, that every single horrible thing stated about this company is true. It comes from the top and the top of the house includes out of touch executives who poison the well with unethical behavior, gossip, and a disregard for those that work hard by shuffling the real issues under the rug. They are financially a house of cards waiting for a slight breeze to topple the whole house. Good people leave and poor performers stay because they are laughed about behind the closed door of the CEO and CFO but left in positions of significance which is a recipe for failure. The CFO has no people or banking skills but largely has been left to run the day to day.....and not well I might add. There are a few bright spots in the organization departments by people who really do care however they are burnt out and over worked due to poor staffing and less than adequate pay and benefits for the people they are trying to recruit into jobs. I am sure reading these very true representations of the culture super high turnover which has a massaged number for the CEO's Monday spin job and their overstated financial position keep the most talented from going to work there. I want to add that I was a top performer and not fired. This is not the rant of some former employee who was fired....it is the rant of a financial services professional with years of experience who walked away completely disillusioned that a company could be run so poorly.

Processes are not clear or logical. Company’s values are neither kept or followed. Discrimination, favoritism, and are the norm in this company. Employee abuses are done in daily basis at this company. Micromanaging some employees while giving full range of misused of company’s resources to others. Poor management mentality and mediocrely executed. Training was painful, confusing and not professional.