Silicon Valley Bank reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(1,428 total reviews)
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Marc Cadieux

81% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Silicon Valley Bank has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,428 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Silicon Valley Bank 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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2.0
Jul 5, 2018

Inner circle

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Pros

Good pay if you negotiated when you were hired, good benefits, strong earnings, unique companies to work with, lots of multitasking to learn new things. Company provides snacks, tech environment with many company hosted gatherings onsite, lots of good coworkers.

Cons

You’re either with the in crowd or you’re not. You can make it keeping your head down and plugging away long hours and nodding your head. I had grown within the credit team but in other groups I have seen some great people get trampled over and have left on their own. There is lack of diversity even though there has been mandated trainings. Lots of gossiping and bullying in with mean spirited intent. Senior management is a part of this and tend to play into supporting this. Lack of resources to get things done and work is constantly blamed and passed from group to group.

5.0
Jul 2, 2018

Amazing

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Pros

Responsibility, advancement, culture, experience, breadth

Cons

None! Maybe just hiring a few more people per team to help with workload at peak times.

2.0
Jun 26, 2018
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Pros

Relaxed culture - completely relaxed pace of work and in some cases, considerable amounts of over-staffing and over-promotion, leading to random VP's watching youtube, and online shopping all day long. The VP title is handed out faster than anywhere else, in my 10+ year career.

Cons

Considerable amount of favoritism amonst managers. If you aren't 100% compatible and the same (in the sense of style, preferences, skin color, etc.) as the rest of your team, they will be dimly but ever so slightly judged for it. Everyone is over enthusiastic about the firm but in reality it is just a commerical bank, not an prestigious Investment bank.

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