Good Company lacking HR Leadership - Human Resources Project Manager Silicon Valley Bank Employee Review

1.0
Feb 15, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company is solid and has great benefits. The mission of the company is great. A lot of wonderful and smart people. Branding is great.

Cons

HR Leadership seems inept to deal with problems within the HR organization. They keep loosing key people and not realizing the reason why. The reason are HR leaders who can’t manage people and are stuck in their ways. I’ve seen HR leaders make people cry in meetings. The CHRO needs to clean house or else they will loose significant talent (which they already have).

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Pros

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Cons

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