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      Patelco Credit Union

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      Patelco Credit Union reviews

      3.6

      65% would recommend to a friend

      (225 total reviews)

      Erin Mendez

      62% approve of CEO

      64% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Senior management

      3.2

      Work/Life balance

      Patelco Credit Union has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 225 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Patelco Credit Union 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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      225 reviews
      1.0
      Oct 16, 2013

      The 50s called. They want their workplace back.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      I highly recommend this company to anyone with a fetish for abuse and a high pain threshold, as you will have skidmarks on your face from being thrown under the bus in management’s daily “bowling for buses” tournies, where the bowling ball is your reputation, self-esteem, and capacity for joy. This is also a great gig if you enjoy working for surly, bitter corporate fossils who’s management philosophies have been ripped out of Korean War-era business school text books based on those of Miss Hannigan from the musical, Annie. Also get ready for team-building sessions in which your department VP’s head explodes at the perplexing concept of fostering any kind of fun in the workplace. Be sure to arm yourself for your first day with a fistful of Xanax and a good high-capacity flask of vodka to tape on the underside of the toilet, since any substance, aspirin included, is strictly forbidden. You will have plenty of time to stake out your favorite stall while you would otherwise be sitting abandoned in the lobby until 11 AM waiting for your new boss to saunter in still recovering from her hangover. Congratulations to battered women who’ve lost interest in ending the cycle of violence. You can now leave your spouse and barely support yourself on below-market wages. Just be sure to recycle your children’s diapers to wear under your slacks, as your butt will be raw from the constant rounds of spankings you can expect for any and all perceived mistakes, regardless of whether or not they are real, or even yours. In fact, they will usually be your boss’s. Good news: This company welcomes victims (ahem) talent from all walks of life. So if you are a massive blowhard who loves to strut around in unfashionable, east coast inspired business attire, jeans are forbidden too. You know the saying, “if you need to wear a suit, you have nothing to say?” It’s true. High five! Enjoy being treated like you’re totally expendable, for an HR department of promoted college dropouts who’s love of onboarding new idiots on a revolving basis exceeds their ability to find – and keep – quality, in-demand personnel.

      Cons

      Nothing, this is a lovely company.

      1.0
      Sep 18, 2013

      They don't care about their branch employees

      Msr
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Most of your coworkers are amazing and hours are decent.

      Cons

      The pay is awful. You work full time hours as part time. They don't care about their branch employees... you know, the ones bringing in the money!

      1.0
      Oct 29, 2014

      Great Place to Work! #itsreallynot

      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      A lot of negative reviews here, but I believe that Patelco is an excellent place to work. If you’re anything like me, you look for certain qualities and—let’s face it—perks when selecting a company to work for. Patelco’s unique offerings include: *The ability to consistently achieve mediocrity while being overworked and undervalued *The chance to work under the leadership of criminals and half-wits (search Patelco on cutimes.com!) *The opportunity to always make wrong decisions—say yes and you will be told you should have said no, and say no and you will be told you should have said yes! You can never win! *The guidance and decision making abilities of a seriously dysfunctional senior leadership team, not to mention a wonderfully overbearing board of directors and a vindictive Chairman of the Board *A consistent company-wide philosophy of starting, and then stopping, and then completely disregarding strategic initiatives, thereby wasting time and misusing valuable resources *The opportunity to watch undeserving people with made-up management titles play hide and seek with their co-worker spouses *A marketing department full of poetic stoners, who—on the rare day they decide to come to the office—are always working hard at writing their novels or making coffee rather than actually pushing Patelco’s products If the above appeals in any way to you, and it should, consider Patelco a real home run!

      Cons

      The only bad thing about working here is that what goes around, comes around. The previous criminal’s—ugh, I mean CEO’s—era started in 2009, and he and his acolytes made sure to clean house and eliminate as many “legacy” employees as they could. Typical business strategy, so fair enough, but the new batch of execs attempted to leave their stamp on Patelco, at the expense of….you guessed it, Patelco. During this time, Patelco shifted from a member and community focused organization into one that was striving to be a bank, without actually admitting it. The old philosophies and mission were thrown out. Oh how times were good for the new regime and terrible for the old! You could be as selfish as you wanted, like the Prince of Home Loans or the Emperor in Collections, and if what you were doing was good for you and you only, it was celebrated—negative impact be damned. Choo choo, the self-serving sales train is leaving, and if you can’t get on board, thanks for your hard work but don’t let the door slam hit you while we kick you off the caboose. But when that CEO was ousted and thrown under the bus by the Board last year, yet another new era began with the current CEO, and the people who did the ousting were now the ones being ousted. The senior team brought in by the ousted CEO has all been forced to leave one by one, suffering humiliation and exposure along the way, and their hires—what’s left of them—cower in fear as the new CEO’s regime rises. The strangest thing about Patelco’s “new” philosophy is that it is basically the original philosophy—to focus on the membership and bring value to products, essentially returning Patelco to what it was in its pre-“bank” days. Fair enough, but don’t forget that most everyone who was in tune with this new-old mission was kicked to the curb. So it is yet another uphill climb to get back to where Patelco was just 4 years prior. The new blood is blissfully ignorant of what came before, and times are now good for the new CEO’s team—but once the Chairman of the Board decides to sack the current CEO, the cycle will begin again and the people who support the current direction will be in the hot seat. Therein lies the rub. But like I said, GREAT place to work.

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