First Merchants reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(228 total reviews)
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Mark K. Hardwick

71% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

First Merchants has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 228 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The First Merchants 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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228 reviews
4.0
Dec 8, 2015

Personal Banker

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good company to work for Senior management cares about you The bank knows when you are doing well and they let other people know as well.

Cons

Work most Saturdays Fridays work until 6:00pm Call nights once a month

2.0
Nov 13, 2015

Teller

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent hours, holidays off, there are a lot of other jobs within the company which makes for easy job transfers.

Cons

No communication, they aren't very quick on fixing problems. some of the managers have minimal knowledge in banking, which creates a stressful work environment. Banking centers are short staffed half of the time.

2.0
Sep 2, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Depending on the branch you learn many different things and are able to help customers.

Cons

Much of the management staff is not knowledgable about the practices. They promote based on tenure, goals and education. Which is not always a bad thing but can become a bad thing when you have managers who aren't ready to lead, leaders who don't know how to motivate or even give constructive criticism to their employees and managers who want to be best friends with their staff. That's no way to manage and it affects moral. There is no communication from hire ups most times or it takes forever to get responses back. If you work at an in store branch you might as well fend for yourself because you're the "red headed step child" of the company.

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