Silicon Valley Bank reviews

The much-hyped "company values" at SVB are emphatically not the things they actually value as a company, and are never used by managers as a tool to reflect upon their own actions. Rather, these empty phrases are regularly wielded as a whip against recalcitrant underlings - as in, "You aren't showing an open mindset." Discussions around salary are actively discouraged, in a variety of disingenuous ways. There's a reason for this. Discuss salaries with your coworkers, you'll be glad you did. You will be required to slide lucrative contracts to SVB clients, who are given every advantage during the bidding process. Choosing to award a contract to a non-client will have severe career repercussions, as this indicates you aren't a "team player". Despite having signed on to the mental health advocacy group One Mind At Work's seminal mental health charter, SVB HR remains actively antagonistic towards the neurodiverse as official practice. If you have a mental health condition of any kind, do NOT self-disclose to anyone at SVB, under any circumstances. SVB's bread and butter are the wealthiest of the wealthiest people on the planet. Working for SVB means working to further the interests of those people. Ask yourself if that's how you really want to spend your time on earth.

Zero work life balance. Rapid growth has increased workload tremendously, but additional staffing or systems updates have not kept up with the pace, leading to more work spread across the same people with the same outdated systems. The response when saying you are overwhelmed is that "everyone across accounting is feeling it too, it's not just you". That's not helpful. The message from exec level is that our health and well-being is crucial, but mid-level management is more concerned with work deadlines. Your personal life or your exhaustion doesn't matter - just get the job done.