Citizens reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(4,799 total reviews)
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Bruce Van Saun

84% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Citizens has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,799 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Citizens 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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5K reviews
3.0
May 31, 2015

Bank Teller

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interacting with customers, slow-paced and relaxing environment

Cons

Heavy focus on sales, pay is too low unless you are outstanding salesperson

2.0
May 31, 2015

Inefficient and Risky, Lagging in Technology

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good people "in the trenches" make for a positive work environment. There is opportunity for advancement if you work hard, have patience, and are willing to try new things.

Cons

Direction/stability of the newly public company is questionable. A history of short-sighted decisions has caught up to the company and it is struggling to dig out of that to remain competitive and deliver value to shareholders. Culture is chaotic and woefully under-resourced, with a tangled web of outsourcing and vendor solutions.

1.0
May 30, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Let's be serious here. Have you talked to anyone who works at citizens bank and they tell you they don't like it? Well that's because the bank forbids it. I have had the worst experience here at this bank. They treat people like machines and then don't pay you your proper Incentives. They call it a bonus/incentive. If you have a good manager like I did before my transfer then you'll probably love working here.

Cons

The systems are terribly slow and dated. They claim to spend millions on technologies but employees don't see it. The goals expectations are seriously flawed and the bank does not care about you or its customers it's all about the numbers. They have shrunk down so many departments and it makes stressful to focus on the client in front of you especially if you need help wait times are forever long. They make you call people at dinner time to try to get them to come in for investment or just try to sell you anything to keep upper management from coming down on the managers. They claim to be paperless? I don't know from where? We shred so much wasted paper on "know me and know me more and all this crap the bank doesn't need to be wasting so much then in turn charged customers for statement and delivery. If your a universal banker your basically everything but 100% teller but still have high banker goals. They will have you working your tail off to point that you just leave the company or if they don't like you they will make your life miserable intentionally. I have seen some of the best talent leave our branches because they demand more than they give you in return. The branches now operate on P&L everyone is expected to have knowledge on this to fully understand how to truly operate this way. Not all employees understand how this works and it's not there fault, when your employer doesn't give you tools to grow an understand you fail! This company does not offer any job security at all! Constantly on edge and always feeling stressed.

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