Is Mizuho Financial Group a good company to work for?

Mizuho Financial Group has an overall rating of 3.9 out of 5, based on over 1,435 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has increased by 5% over the last 12 months. 73% of employees would recommend working at Mizuho Financial Group to a friend and 78% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Mizuho Financial Group have been left by employees working as Intern , Executive Director and Managing Director .

Does Mizuho Financial Group pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Mizuho Financial Group employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.8 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Mizuho Financial Group. This rating has improved by 5% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Mizuho Financial Group?

73% of Mizuho Financial Group employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Mizuho Financial Group 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.8 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Mizuho Financial Group?

Vice President (101) , Analyst (87) , Associate (78) , Director (54) , Assistant Vice President (29) , Intern (28) , Investment Banking Analyst (25) , Officer (24) , Manager (18) , Managing Director (15) , Executive Director (14) , Associate Director (13) , Credit Analyst (13) , Senior Officer (13) , Senior Vice President (11)

What are the pros of working at Mizuho Financial Group according to real employee reviews?

"good work life balance not like to fast moving companies" ((in 111 reviews)); "Some people are nice and helpful." ((in 106 reviews)); "Great group and culture." ((in 91 reviews)); "Good benefits and 401k is great" ((in 85 reviews)); "colleagues are friendly and nice" ((in 63 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Mizuho Financial Group according to real employee reviews?

"Bad management, expats are handing thier own works over to the local hires, infights are severe, discrimination happens..." ((in 60 reviews)); "Low salary and lots of tasks." ((in 46 reviews)); "Long hours and very demanding" ((in 31 reviews)); "+ Employees are highly demotivated, as Senior Management has favouritism issue" ((in 30 reviews)); "Expats managers have no idea at all what they are doing but only think of their own benefits." ((in 19 reviews))

What are employees saying about Mizuho Financial Group layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Mizuho Financial Group layoffs and their outlook for job security at Mizuho Financial Group in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Mizuho Financial Group locations?

New York , Jersey City , Los Angeles , San Francisco , Chicago , Midtown New York , Hoboken , Iselin , Harrison , Montclair , Newark , Woodbridge , Brooklyn , New City , Houston , Portland , Boston , Atlanta , Lawrenceville , East Los Angeles , Little Tokyo

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3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(1,230 total reviews)

Masahiro Kihara

90% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Diversity & inclusion

3.8

Culture & values

3.8

Work/Life balance

3.8

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Career opportunities

3.5

Senior management

Mizuho Financial Group has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,230 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Mizuho Financial Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews

3.0

Jun 12, 2015

Consulting Pays Good

Technical consultant

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great pay at 130k for technical consulting. People are mostly nice and helpful.

Cons

Forced to stay in cube like an animal and if not busy, sit there pretending to be working. When presenting ideas, they are not received well even though you are asked for ideas, opinions, and plans. They know more than you do, yet they bring you aboard to help them with you expertise in a field. Too many rules and forms for simply things. In-house trainers are terrible! Forced to take useless and boring classes. Everyone there thinks they are trainers but they really suck and it's so boring and a waste of time!

Mizuho Financial Group Response

10y

Thank you for your comments. We are sorry that you did not have a more positive experience. We will take your feedback into account as the Bank continues to grow.

1.0

Jun 9, 2015

SVP

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Not much. Perhaps office chairs are good.

Cons

Substandard Management. Japanese decision making process is unbelievable, and Japanese Expats think they are smart and capable of making good decisions.

1.0

Mar 26, 2014

Painful place

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

People are friendly Good benefits

Cons

- an investment bank wanna be, with no real capabilities, everything is painfully hard. Incompetent people, ancient system - if you don't mind a boring job and spending majority time struggling with internal stuff - so many expats there not because they can do a good job - senior management seems to be a training post for Tokyo staff

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