Citizens reviews

Where to begin? Bank is very dysfunctional and extremely disorganized. "Too Many Chiefs, Not Enough Indians"-very top heavy with midlevel and senior management while staffing in the branches is minimal at best. Constant and relentless sales pressure to sell the customer any product the bank is pushing-feel very much like a used car salesman. Micro-managed from the minute you walk in the morning to the minute you leave at the end of the day. Bank's overall infrastructure including systems, ATM equipment, etc. is in total disrepair, yet Citizens spends huge sums on new advertising and glossy brochures. Ellen Alemany, the C.E.O. may be a bright woman, but is clueless when its comes to retail banking. Why is the British Government paying this woman to maintain at least two corpoarte offices-New York and Providence yet the bank cannot even afford bottled water for its branches or calendars or X-mas envelopes for its customers. I just don't get it! I would not recommend working for Citizens until RBS sells them and they get their act together.

When I think of Citizens (corporate), I see bloated herds of clueless VPs running around without even the most basic understanding of 1), their products and customers; 2), any concept of what leadership is; 3), what it takes to be a leader, or 4), any basic experience leading at a lower level and learning the basic concepts of leadership (or even a basic understanding of how relationships are established and maintained).