Silicon Valley Bank reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(1,428 total reviews)
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Marc Cadieux

81% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Silicon Valley Bank has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,428 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Silicon Valley Bank 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
1.0
Dec 15, 2017

Administrative Assistant

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Company has great health benefits

Cons

Major Office Politics, very distracting

2.0
Dec 11, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Smart employees, good benefits, decent pay

Cons

Horrible culture in some pockets, inept or outright mean managers that linger for years, internal technology is lackluster and outdated.

3.0
Dec 1, 2017

Emperor has no cloth!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

continued growth, great products, competent sales team, and always have opportunity to work on new things and solve challenges.

Cons

The compliance department is a joke, keeping hiring incompetent Chief Compliance Officers and all they do is to talking about change, buying time until themselves got fired. The newly appointment Chief Compliance Officer is the worst, if you ever wonder how Wells Fargo got into phony account opening scandal last year and shed management responsibility by firing floor level employees when things got exploded, well, he is the walking post of that rotten culture. it is well known by everyone at the Bank how he screwed up the BSA/AML division and openly talked about his ability of putting out "smoking mirrors" to upper management and examiners, now he is promoted to even run the compliance department. SVB is running a huge risk to become the 2016 Wells Fargo. It is about time to say emperor have no cloth and we can expect our compliance department will be populated from drones from Wells Fargo soon.

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