Identity Crisis - Personal Banker KeyBank Employee Review

2.0
Oct 9, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay is decent, benefits are pretty good overall, although the health insurance is high deductible and a nightmare to administer. You'll spend a lot of time to get the benefits you are paying for.

Cons

They talk a good game about being a "relationship" bank, but unless that relationship involves all their products, it's not any better than the others. The focus is totally and completely on sales. Relationships take time to develop, but they want it all right away. Turnover is ridiculous and by design. The staffing model for branches leaves all employees harried and it is extremely difficult to get time off as a result. Leaders spend most of their time hiring replacements. During my time at Key, our branch had 150% turnover.

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Cons

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Pros

Flexibility is what sells this place as a great place to work. Hybrid schedule, great PTO, no guilt trips for needing time off for family matters.

Cons

Your experience will vary greatly based on your manager. One asset manager can freely call in or wfh without worry where another AM may be reprimanded for the same. The insurance department is completely inept. Borrowers are constantly threatening to sue because our insurance dept management sucks. Very little training across most departments. Some people work very very hard, others dont work at all, there doesnt seem to be much oversight there. When a manager tells their employee "dont expect to get promoted next year" with no guidance or encouragement, you pretty much kill all motivation for that employee to do better. They will hire people as senior staff and pay them way more than their seasoned employees make, and then tell their seasoned employees not to expect a senior promotion.

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