Regions Financial reviews

Recruiters sell you on company culture being a great place to work and Regions being a progressive company with great advancement opportunities. They also sell the low salary on the ease of getting bonuses, which is far from true. Bank walk-in business is declining rapidly and they want you to be a inbound sales person constantly calling customers. They also want you to be tellers in addition to being bankers. So essentially be prepared to do every job in the building. Managers are giving the freedom to operate their branch any way they see fit so branch culture is nothing like the corporate image presented about the company. Employees lie on the Best Places to Work surveys because it is so easy for the manager to figure out the "anonymous" responses. They will single people out and attack until you quit or get fired. So if you aren't like well enough by your manager or the district manager you can forget advancement even if you are qualified. They would rather promote a less qualified individual that they like or are related to than you. The underlying culture is very antiquated based on old school methodologies. If you are smart, energetic, love challenges and embrace change find another company that embraces these qualities. This job will dull your skills.

Racism is built into the dna of America. If we choose to ignore it, then we are never going to fulfill the promise of the Civil Rights Act. Certain people want to be blind to the economic consequences of racism and homophobia; well I cannot be blind to it because it is a part of my everyday life. My manager that I worked for embodies the qualities of Jim Crow’s past and present. He constantly showed that there were different rules for white people. He constantly made up reasons based upon metrics that he just pulled out of the air to justify his disparate treatment. His manager allowed such treatment such as when he called me stupid in a meeting. He even saw me walking down the hall and said you know it is not over. I even went over his manager's head and said that there is something wrong with the way my manager was treating me. Nothing happened. I took a SANS class and passed the certification exam and a white person took the same class and did not pass the exam, yet they were promoted. He constantly complained about my performance when other groups were praising the same performance.