Oh boy where to begin? This company merged with another bank called Rabobank recently and the culture completely changed. There are higher sales goals, and if you do not meet them you risk getting written up. Corporate is oblivious to employee happiness, and a lot of people have been quitting because the company has no sense of direction. The Director of Retail Banking, Rauly Butler, is superb. The person he reports to, the Chief Banking Officer, and the person below Rauly, the Senior Vice President/Retail Region Manager for the Bay Area, are two of the most vile, incompetent, micro-managing people I have ever seen. They bully and berate Branch Managers. Speaking of Branch Managers, do not ever work at the Walnut Creek location. The BM is lazy, has other people do his work for him, and only got his position because of favoritism with the Retail Region Manager. He is part of the Retail Regional Manager/Chief Banking Officer buffoonery. The pay is atrocious compared to other banks. The raises we received this year were an abomination, and just more evidence that Mechanics made a huge mistake merging with an awful company in Rabobank. Another thing: if you get promoted from within the company you are not going to be making as much as an external candidate with the same position. Great job rewarding an employee who knows the company better than someone else Mechanics.