North reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(389 total reviews)
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Marc Gardner

86% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

North has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 389 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The North employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.6 stars).

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389 reviews
2.0
Sep 11, 2013

Great company, very bad environment...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Company is solid, has enough capital to fail ten times and still stand, and the product have real potential.

Cons

There are people in some key Management, VP and Director position that are not prepared for the tasks. Some of those individuals were promoted only because the company's owner (Marc Garner) was familiar with their faces, but they were given new positions without any training or qualification to perform professionally. Even worse, those guys hire new guys (and, in most cases, "friends") to perform tasks also without proper qualification. Nowadays in NAB there is a big mess and too many "ideas" without "directions" exactly because there are too many "wannabes" and too little "experienced" professionals in most key positions. As result, it gets very hard to be competent in NAB, even harder to work professionally when your superiors have no clue about how to manage their own duties, and the poor professionals who are undermined but are knowledgeable to do their tasks, are forced to clean their messes without getting any credit for the hard work. The only way to survive in NAB hostile "bad managed" environment is watching the movie "Office Space" then apply the same procedures here, otherwise it will be frustrations day after day. People are doing it until a better job option is found, and they simply run for it (some people were so eager to leave NAB that they haven't even give the "two weeks notice". That is how bad it gets)!

2.0
May 5, 2017

All talk No walk in IT

Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Great Team Members (individually) -Ping Pong -Good Technology available -Occasional Free food

Cons

-CEO is a micromanager -NEW CIO makes lots of promises but they are all lies -No room for growth -High level leadership only interested in money not people

4.0
Mar 14, 2017

From meh to yay!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people make North American Bancard great! The diversity in talents, abilities, ethnicities, and experiences make coming to work each and every day something I look forward to. The ability to make mistakes and learn from them without negative retribution is rare in many corporations but something that North American Bancard does well. If you like working in a fast paced environment, challenging yourself, and growing by leaps and bounds then this is the place for you. If you want boring, mundane, unfulfilling work then please look elsewhere. Growth at NAB is not just business related, it is people related.

Cons

I don't know if I would use the word, con, however, I would use the word opportunity. One of the areas of opportunity is silos. The organization can improve on silo dependency to take us to the next level. Silos slow down and often times prevent open dialogue to help solve problems within the organization. Remove the silos and watch the organization grow and surpass even its own expectations.

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