Deutsche Bank Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Deutsche Bank

Pros – Dependability, reliability, measured growth, clear corporate structure

Cons – Fragmented technology, large governance, minimal culture

Former Employee – worked at Deutsche Bank

Pros – nice community of people to work with

Cons – a rapidly changing culture due to deutsche acquisition

Current Employee – been working at Deutsche Bank full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great career opportunities
Good culture (one of the in investment banking)

Cons – Office location can be close to the centre of Moscow

Advice to Senior Management – More opportunities for technical people

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Deutsche Bank full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Work/life balance, face time is not big here
2-week mandatory time off for equity research folks is awesome
Good stability...layoff and mass cuts in the US less likely despite European troubles
Very good global network/resources
Mgmt is trying to bring more structure and resources

Cons – Pay is good when you first get here, but average to below average
Needs to do a better job of incentivizing employees
Needs more team events
No real sense of culture, siloed work environment
No good sense of what is going on in the business globally...lack of cohesion
Too many internal systems and they are old

Advice to Senior Management – Needs to do a better job of incentivizing employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Deutsche Bank full-time for more than a year

Pros – Its a big brand name and pays decent compensation. Better for those who want to work less and network more.

Cons – Difficult to achieve self-respect there. Till the time results are satisfactory, nobody bothers to look at right or wrong.

Advice to Senior Management – Vision of a great upper management has got blurred at the hands of local authorities

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Deutsche Bank full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Culture great, encourages opportunities and mobility. Smart smart people.

Cons – It mgmt is inconsistent. Belief if trial and error approach to development leads to poor results and poor roi. Emphasis on developers over project managers and the like. If you are a developer they are moving to a low cost center model, where the hubs like new York city and London are not or rarely hiring developers as they are moving to places like north Carolina and Moscow.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Deutsche Bank full-time

Pros – It's a major bank and therefore a good name on your resume. You are left alone to do your work - contact with managers and team members is minimal, it's entirely possible to go the whole day without speaking to anyone.

Cons – If the manager doesn't like you then you will go nowhere. The bonus pool is split between a few of the managers favorites, and has nothing to do with rewards for good work.

Promotion never happens - they always hire new people in from outside, so the only way to move up is to move on.

managers shout at employees. It's pretty much the opposite of a friendly fun place to work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Deutsche Bank full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good dedicated people, Nice working environment

Cons – Politics, spineless managers, reorg every quarter, very little room for dissent

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize talent and get rid of smoochers

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Deutsche Bank full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Culture is quite confused in uk office

Cons – Confused in terms of direction

Advice to Senior Management – Less layers

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Deutsche Bank full-time

Pros – Big Organization and good location in Singapore (not moving to Changi)
Friendly working environment

Cons – Slow to Change
Very hierarchical (HR won't say that though)
Disorganized
Training by Managers not so good

Advice to Senior Management – Better training and development for new hires
Don't be so hierarchical, let the young use their energy and ideas

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend