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      BB&T

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      BB&T reviews

      3.4

      58% would recommend to a friend

      (2,374 total reviews)
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      Kelly S. King

      82% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      BB&T has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,374 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BB&T 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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      2K reviews
      3.0
      Sep 11, 2014

      Too many politics

      Semi-technical in nature
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Better than average benefits. Solid overall company that is not going bankrupt any time soon.

      Cons

      Difficult to move to other departments. Too many games played, once it's determined that you're not happy in your current department. The fraternity boy types are rewarded with managerial jobs, because they all golf and hang out together, or they've found their way into a manager's heart higher up the food chain. If you tell the truth, and it is determined that management is culpable, it will be ignored or you will be ostracized. Great place to be a manager, as long as you're good at the social game, brown-nosing, and politicking (as long as you're aligned with the people that win that game, otherwise you'll eventually be shown the door or be pigeon-holed into a dead-end career). Technology is a bit limited, and they've taken all of their training dollars away, except for "important" resources like developers making their highest visibility tool.

      1.0
      Aug 22, 2014

      Don't think this is a small, community bank anymore!

      Market leader ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      time off, employees you work with.

      Cons

      Not good management training, conference calls on Mondays and Fridays where you get yelled out for not making your numbers. Events, working more than 1 saturday a month, no comp time for saturday. short staffed, when they loose someone, they don't replace them. Management makes you think that you have it good but you really don't. Treat their manager's like crap! The whole culture has changed with John Allison retiring. Employees are miserable, management gets blamed for everything. You are always pulled in 100 different directions. Sales, sales, sales even if the client doesn't need it!

      3.0
      May 6, 2014

      I'm over it

      Relationship banker
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You get brainwashed into thinking that your health benefits, 401k match, pension, and vacation overshadow the lack of common sense that desperately needs tending to. If you work with a great branch, it can make the workload bearable. I have worked with some very nice people, and I have had the opportunity to work in high volume branches. The company had so much potential back in 2005 when I first started. They made you think your actions were for the client, for the established relationship, and for everyone's well being. Over the past years, they have bought out other banks to keep pace with the bigger banks. It is producing a negative effect. We use to have stock options, appreciation weeks, and an overall feeling of gratitude from management.

      Cons

      BB&T is turning into the "bigger, badder bank." Constant restructuring of employees, budget cuts, manic hiring sprees and then freezes, and pressure for high sales had made this place a dreadful place to work. I use to love my job. Now it's turning into a daily threat of job security, while the middle of the pack works to support management, and the workload is not returned. They spend money on a worthless "video game" and then cut the budget so tight we can't even buy candy in the branch for the clients. There is no room to advance except for branch management. They hire IRM partners from external sources instead of training their own and then expect those same partners to have the values that get drilled into the existing staff day after day. So the people that stay and want to move up in the company don't have anywhere to go. It's all about what is new and shiny, and at the end of the day, it is a mens' club, or the good old boy network. Period.

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