Banking from the 80's - Personal Banker KeyBank Employee Review

2.0
Apr 10, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Room for growth, reimburses 80% of public transit fees (up to $60/month), tuition reimbursement program, recently added Roth 401k plan.

Cons

There are about 10 different systems to use in the branch (opening a new account requires three of them, and KeyCounselor crashes constantly!), 20+ emails a day from the area about birthdays/anniversaries/sales/branch procedures/new promotions/etc (to the point that many employees don't check their email), training is lacking and not up to date, the online help pages are not up to date, the phone book is not up to date, questions about procedure are met with "call answerbank [back office support]" or "look it up in e-docs [online help pages]," pay is not competitive, the area I work in is gravely understaffed, safe deposit box procedure is archaic and allows for client-losses, unethical phone tactics to complete a sale, banking products/services/rates are not competitive, they still use paper signature cards which are a mess in every branch, underwriting is difficult to work with and constantly makes mistakes, many back office departments close at 5pm ET.

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Pros

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Cons

I have strong reason to suspect I was placed on a PIP for reporting a employment violation to HR, I have had approved PTO get unapproved with 10 days of the vacation with no compensation, my area region leader is horrible. They have very weird rules to disqualify any compensation or even metric recording of repeat investors, even though the advisor I work with gets full credit and compensation, the branch manager and area leader get full metric credit and increase to their bonus for it and if another employee referred it they still receive their full flat bonus for the referral. If a branch is understaffed you will be required to essentially become a branch manager and will be expected to take on numerous branch operations but they will not adjust your wealth metrics.

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