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      Silicon Valley Bank

      Acquired by First Citizens Bank

      Engaged Employer

      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

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Senior management

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      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
      Oct 16, 2017

      IT is a sinking ship

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Great benefits and people that actually makes things happen versus those that preach and do nothing about it.

      Cons

      Get rid of all IT management from CIO down. They preach about values and live up to none of them. New operations management has ZERO integrity. They lie and cheat about whatever it takes to save their own skin. Management silencing HR from the complaints and disclosing HR issues has got to be some sort of privacy and ethics violation. We all know who "management" is. Now it just grew to more puppets. The entire department is extremely unhappy which is no surprise. Management is not loyal, sympathetic and blind and only care about their own benefit. With so much turnover, there is consistency.

      1.0
      Oct 15, 2017

      A very good working environment being turned into a Visa/big bank environment.

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Good benefits Decent work life balance Decent pay Decent time off with unlimited PTO but actually limited by manager. Good company socials.

      Cons

      So many recently. The QA organization has become so top heavy and people being hired due to favoritism and nepotism. All Visa people bringing their terrible work culture and ethics. Trying to get rid of all people who are not part of the old boys club. So much mid management hired when there was no need. All work is done offshore !! Reorgs for no reason except so the COO can massage his ego. His mission is to turn SVB into Visa.

      5.0
      Oct 5, 2017

      Hyper and I love it

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Been here for a few years and I love it. Its hectic but we have wonderful clients and to be honest many of my colleagues are great personal friends. Fast growth does of course stretch us and our systems and processes but these are all understood by those that are here for the long term. I know some of the people who left and basically they couldn't hack it. We try to hire the best and need to keep doing that.

      Cons

      You are expected to work hard and be focussed. There is a trade off to work life balance and we have been promised clearer guidance on this point so we await with interest.

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