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      Silicon Valley Bank

      Acquired by First Citizens Bank

      Engaged Employer

      Silicon Valley Bank reviews

      4.0

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (1,426 total reviews)
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      Marc Cadieux

      80% approve of CEO

      51% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      Silicon Valley Bank has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,426 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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      1K reviews
      1.0
      Nov 20, 2019

      Can't believe the CEO allows such inept and clueless technology leaders

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Good pay if you're in the spotlight and kiss up to manager.

      Cons

      Abundance of favoritism and nepotism among technology leaders. Completely unaligned with the values that grew the company to where it is today. Technology leaders are self indulgent and blatantly uninformed about their own business. IT organization is driven by fear of regulators and none of them understand basics of controls and managing risk.

      5.0
      May 11, 2019

      Love it and love my team!

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      SVB is a huge growth company that still has a hometown feel. I work with the greatest team in IT Product Development. My team lead and manager are supportive and encourage me to take training to learn as much as I can to be successful. I am working on project that is being implemented 2 years later than planned. I know that without the management changes at the top of the IT org, we would still be debating requirements.

      Cons

      Sometimes the hometown feel means we take too long to make decisions and worry about hurting peoples feelings. We need to keep in mind our value to speak with integrity even when the message is difficult. That how we will get the great results.

      1.0
      Oct 16, 2017

      IT is a sinking ship

      Anonymous employee
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great benefits and people that actually makes things happen versus those that preach and do nothing about it.

      Cons

      Get rid of all IT management from CIO down. They preach about values and live up to none of them. New operations management has ZERO integrity. They lie and cheat about whatever it takes to save their own skin. Management silencing HR from the complaints and disclosing HR issues has got to be some sort of privacy and ethics violation. We all know who "management" is. Now it just grew to more puppets. The entire department is extremely unhappy which is no surprise. Management is not loyal, sympathetic and blind and only care about their own benefit. With so much turnover, there is consistency.

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