Zero leadership, DIY approach to everything, committed to mediocrity
Pros
I work with tremendously nice people and have found it to be common thread throughout the bank. Compensation is decent. Training is so-so but it is encouraged wherever you can get it.
Cons
Nothing works like it should in this organization. Just getting small tasks done -- such as ordering supplies or a computer or whatever -- is a royal pain because of the 1990's platforms and applications in place. Corporate Directory isn't even correct, so you can't find people when you need help. Japanese culture rotates CEO every three years or so and as a result, the CEO's emphasis is on making Tokyo happy rather than building a great culture, listening to employees, or truly improving the organization beyond making it more profitable. The Retail arm is run by a bunch of monkeys with more ego than intelligence, so it's little wonder the retail biz is floundering. Every department is its own silo because leadership at the highest levels doesn't know how to look at the big picture. It's a joke to think that this bank will ever be in the Top Ten (which is its aspiration). It can't get out of its own way. It does an employee survey every year but hides the majority of the results from the employees because employees always lambaste management -- and then the bank states the same goals every year in "response" to the survey results. In other words, it pretends to care what employees are saying but in fact, it does not care at all. Actually, it doesn't know how to change.
