SouthState reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(549 total reviews)

John Corbett

93% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

SouthState has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 549 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SouthState 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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549 reviews
2.0
Mar 8, 2015

Frustrating and giving up progress.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Casual work environment outside the branches. Decent 401k. In a good market.

Cons

No real investment in technology.no professional development. They'd rather hire someone from another bank than promote internally. Archaic time off policies. They seem to manage out of fear.

1.0
Mar 2, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The First Federal culture and treatment of employees was absolutely outstanding. All of that has now changed. The First Federal approach to customer services was absolutely outstanding. All of that has also changed.

Cons

South State has elevated only prior SCBT leadership into current management of the combined company. For the most part these are less experienced, less qualified individuals than their First Federal counterparts. Products and services for our customers will suffer.

2.0
Sep 27, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

To make up for not providing a lunch hour they provided lunch at my desk.

Cons

The hiring managers were well aware that I did not have any call center or banking experience yet I was tested on their new procedures and computer applications after 6 days of training by an instructor that was unorganized and scattered.. I passed but was told that I need to improve quickly so that I wouldn't make it all the way to the review and be told, "you suck at this" or "you suck at that". The first Mentor I had was amazing but then I was placed with one that was continuousIy late, absent or just wondering around. She was lost in procedure and technique. The quality of Mentors went down from that day on. They were late every day, spent most of the day wondering around, visiting. I made it to the first review and was told I was doing great, they thanked me for working there. Three days later I was fired for not being up to speed. I was told EVERYDAY by management that if at anytime I had a problem, just come see them. One day I had a problem (I had a customer on the phone angry and yelling at me because he could hear people laughing loudly and talking in the background, and thought it was me.) It was actually my Mentor and her friends, so I went to talk to management and within an hour I was fired. No warning, no help.......just ushered out the door told my computer skills were not up to speed.

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