Senior Software Engineer - Senior Software Engineer Bank OZK Employee Review

2.0
Nov 17, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The developers you get to work with are fantastic. And....the front door opens....

Cons

Almost too many to list. I will try my best. They will sell you on this to be an innovation lab where you can work with different technologies but that is the farthest from the truth. You are not even allowed to download a chrome extension. You can only use a surface book no other option. The salaries are below average, and benefits are horrible. Management is absolutely terrible, for most of the middle management they are extremely inexperienced and this their first or second job. They have very dry, hard to interpret humor that honestly comes off as very insulting. They claim to be very flexible which is also the farthest from the truth. My advice, please read all reviews for the innovation labs before ever considering this position. Middle management will write code that is horrific and full of bugs and blame your team. Victories are never celebrated, EVER. This is the first glass door review I ever had to write to warn others. I would say the culture is terrible, the developers want to make it positive but management appears to be blind. The best way to describe this place is extremely corporate with absolutely no corporate benefits.

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Pros

Great benefits, decent pay, decent people

Cons

There are many departments with poor, toxic leadership and abusing their authority

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Bank OZK Response
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Thank you for providing us with valuable feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to leave a review.
2.0
Jul 7, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits and a stable paycheck. There are people here doing genuinely strong work and trying to build things the right way. Some leaders are approachable and mean well.

Cons

Concerns get heard but rarely resolved. You'll get a warm, sympathetic response and then nothing changes. If you raise the same issue again, you get the same warm response again. Job responsibilities tend to grow well past what the role is classified and paid for, with no adjustment in title or compensation to match. Being direct or setting boundaries about workload gets read as a personality problem instead of a legitimate concern. Compensation doesn't always reflect the level of work being done, especially compared to peers doing similar jobs. There's no meaningful career path or growth programming. Something I didn't know before joining, and wish I had, is that the headquarters is essentially an art museum, the bank owns a private collection and gives tours of the building. It's a striking level of investment in physical spaces. In hindsight, that would have prompted me to ask more pointed questions in my interview about employee development and career growth, because that same level of investment doesn't extend to training programs or growth paths for staff. If you're interviewing here, ask specifically what career progression looks like and what's budgeted for employee development, not just what the office looks like.

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Bank OZK Response
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We appreciate all feedback. Thank you for bringing your concerns to our attention. We will pass them along to management.
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