Silicon Valley Bank reviews

-The Marketing group is not highly respected within the company so this leads to a lot of finger pointing and gossip. -Many layers of management for a small Marketing team. -There is no promoting from within. Prefer to hire manager/director level externally. -A lot of favoritism for those who are a friend of the CMO or a C level manager. -Bottoms up organization. No support from the top. -Many claim they have too many meetings. These meetings are spent talking (I.e., collaborating) which means projects go on for an eternity. -It is more important to be liked. If you are the type who likes to be innovative, take risks and feel respected for speaking up and doing different you will be viewed as arrogant. not a team player and/or difficult. Your manager will speak to you about this...drink more Koolaid...you will be fine. -When/if the Koolaid has worn off it is time to move on. Use SVB as a stepping stone. Leave when your gut is wrenching on the daily.

Preferential treatment of any colleague who worked at the previous office ‘Lothbury’, This elite tribe will wander the office around quoting their employee # status to avoid doing any actual work. The whole place is a massive clique (as other reviews have pointed out). You’ll either be in it or you won’t and that will be made clear to you early on. The job you sign up for won’t be the one you end up doing. There are manual processes (and errors) everywhere but nobody checks what anyone else is doing so feel free to make things up as you go along. Lack of experience and leadership within the management team is evident and becoming a growing problem as nothing ever gets done. Big shout out to the ‘change’ team here. Be prepared for other colleagues to tell you how much they hate working here in your first week.