Great Southern Bank reviews

• Prepare to be overworked and underpaid! • Salaries are below market average • No bonus or recognition for high achievements • No annual bonus scheme. • No guaranteed pay increase scheme for employees on packaged contracts. • Company is always looking for the cheapest option in everything they do incl. systems, software, projects etc even if it’s not fit for purpose • Middle management (Incl Head Of’s & Snr Leaders) across most areas of the business are incompetent. Huge egos willing to throw anyone under the bus to save themselves. • C-suite / Executive team are out of touch with reality and working off their own personal agendas. • Allot of employees with long term tenure are resistant to change • Poor change management across the business incl poor communication. E.g - CUA have performed mass redundancies and the only people to know it’s happening are the people pulling the strings and the people directly impacted. • Lack of transparency, honesty and integrity. Allot of secretive BS occurs. E.g - I have seen highly qualified, experienced and suitable employees (incl managers) be made redundant, only for someone else to be brought in to perform the exact same role, under a slightly different name. Execs and middle management hiring their mates from other competing companies to surround themselves with yes-men. • The company are full of silos with little to no cross collaboration • Poorly managed and run enterprise projects. Project sponsorship is poor. • Lack of BPM maturity. • They like to use non documented rules/policies that negatively impact employees, to get away with as much as they can. So if you work your butt off and achieve some amazing things, above and beyond what is expected of you in your role, you won’t be recognised or compensated for it. • Lack of strategic direction. • Old and out of touch board members • Out of date systems and software. • Lack of career progression • No support for training and development. Everything has to be paid and arranged by you.

Fails to follow its own processes and policies leaving employees abused and exposed. Makes lots of noise about mental health but when you actually have a workplace induced mental health condition they don’t want to know about it telling you it’s “not practical” to make basic adjustments. Protects incompetent and deceitful leaders even when they lie and throw innocent employees under the bus for their own failings. Poorly organised internal workflows and operations, technology that lags behind other businesses. No career progression possible or training provided to keep up with changes. LOTS of great people made redundant for no good reason, then later the same roles re-hired with modified job title. Insist you come into the office multiple times a week even if you have to commute hours and end up sitting there all alone, will not negotiate on this. Has a flexible working policy that sounds great but when you apply to have the smallest adjustment made even for genuine legal reasons you are treated with contempt. Lots of nepotism amongst managers, hiring old buddies and connections. Years of hard work, blood, sweat, loyalty and overtime mean nothing here. Management does not genuinely care about your welfare, happiness or career aspirations, it pays lip service only. You are regularly forced or strongly pressured into emptying your leave balance at certain points in the year (Christmas, EOFY to name a few) so it is difficult to accrue enough time for a real holiday with the family. Leadership comes up with these big ideas (think rebrand) then without consultation or any understanding of what they’re asking sets absurd deadlines for completion, causing the pressure to flow downward and any sense of planning to fall apart.