Santander reviews

Nothing gets done here . People don't take ownership of the work they are doing . They are so many teams you need to navigate to and follow up multiple times to get a 5 mins job done . You seniors will get promoted based on the work you do . Senior management is aware of the challenges but they do nothing . There is always restructuring happening so you never know when they are going to throw you out . People have no focus here .It's a toxic place.

This applies to Santander U.S. only Technology is very outdated. For the most part, people who are making the decisions have no idea what they're doing. There is never a coherent plan to achieve a stated goal. There is never enough time to do things right, but there's always time to do things over (and over). They never want to invest the time or money into improving processes or tools. Management has a take credit, assign blame philosophy. The technology head is prone to temper tantrums. As a result, he does not enjoy the respect of most of his team.