Valley Strong Credit Union reviews

Quick change from locally grown, people-focused company to company by the numbers, where customer stories no longer matter. Culture shock when senior positions are now being filled by banking senior execs that have left their corner of the finance world. Little upward movement for normal employees. Minimal frontline staffing.

Lots of "local" and "true to our roots" posturing, which admittedly looks great on the outside. Internally, a different narrative is forming and is doing so more rapidly in the past few months. Company culture is eroding, which has been noticed by both front-facing and backend employees in various departments. Valley Strong is a corporate bank in local credit union's clothing. Lots of big corporate influence has been brought in within the past year (to aid in and continue pretty aggressive expansion) and it not only shows but is making this company a different place. Unfortunately, in many instances this is for the worse. CEO, aside from being an outright jerk, is a child who stole dad's Ferrari and doesn't know how to handle it. He's surrounded himself with big corporate acumen and influence on the senior leadership level - "too many cooks." The financial district influence is completely at odds with what the great majority of the company's workforce is used to and has come to love and respect about where they work. At the moment, the number of people on their way out the door or at least expressing unhappiness is small enough to be written off as standard attrition by those higher up in the company. If they continue down this path actual thought may need to go into correcting course. Go figure. Until then, anything to avoid a mirror, it seems. Still not a horrible place to be, but it's doing everything it can to get there. Criticism such as this is coolly dismissed by upper leadership as they eye the next shiny "initiative" to spend money on. Anything to avoid putting it on our paychecks.