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    Bank of Queensland Reviews

    Updated 6 April 2019
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    Stuart Grimshaw
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    Pros

    • "Great team of coworkers , some good work/life balance as long as you have the right manager" (in 7 reviews)

    • "The head office location in Brisbane is also good" (in 8 reviews)

    Cons

    • "This Bank needs a complete fresh start of senior management to cull all of the staff who are ruining this company" (in 10 reviews)

    • "Toxic bullying culture, under investment in systems and people" (in 6 reviews)

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    1. "A great environment to work in. Staff are well looked after as well as their customers."

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      Former Employee - Customer Relationship Specialist in Brisbane
      Former Employee - Customer Relationship Specialist in Brisbane
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Bank of Queensland full-time

      Pros

      All about customer service not pushing sales

      Cons

      Systems are sometimes a bit slow

    2. "Great place to work. Close access to a lot of executives"

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      Current Employee - Corporate Financial Analyst in Newstead, Queensland
      Current Employee - Corporate Financial Analyst in Newstead, Queensland
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Bank of Queensland full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Proximity to the executive leadership.

      Cons

      Technology is behind parity with other banks.

      Advice to Management

      Pull the bandaid off and improve the technology.

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    3. Helpful (1)

      "Manual Bank"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Bank of Queensland full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Higher pay, you would learn full knowledge of retail bank

      Cons

      Limited opportunity, poor system, no improvement

    4. Helpful (1)

      "Analyst"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Bank of Queensland full-time

      Pros

      BOQ has a good work culture and provides a good balance with personal life. The head office location in Brisbane is also good.

      Cons

      The business is very behind in technology - both internally and customer facing app and internet banking. This makes the business quite inefficient.

      Advice to Management

      The bank needs to focus on providing its retail business with better technology to enable better technology experience - this will also help BOQ employees to actually want to use the bank for their personal requirements.

    5. Helpful (4)

      "Terrible Place to Work"

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      Former Employee - H R Business Partner in Brisbane
      Former Employee - H R Business Partner in Brisbane
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Bank of Queensland full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Can't think of any really

      Cons

      Awful Exec Team -dysfunctional and awful culture

      Advice to Management

      Move on

    6. Helpful (1)

      "Average"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Bank of Queensland full-time

      Pros

      If you work in an OWner managed branch.

      Cons

      Backward organisation with poor leadership, leadership make empty promises, all the processes are archaic and no one ever cares about the customer but the front line.

    7. Helpful (1)

      "BDM"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Bank of Queensland full-time

      Pros

      New premises and new amenities

      Cons

      Payroll, HR and IT departments 3rd world incompetent

    8. Helpful (1)

      "Honest"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Bank of Queensland full-time (More than 8 years)

      Pros

      9-4pm Job.
      local dont need to drive to nsw or brisbane.

      Cons

      No career progression for Branch staff.
      Only support corporate staff.
      No development plans or Growth channels for Personal Development within this company - they might say there is - but its broken and un wanted by management. Thus in turn slows your development and progression.
      Very old systems and procedures.
      Not up with the times on any of the IT infrastructure.
      Slow acting management and staff.
      Training and On-boarding is a complete joke.

      Advice to Management

      Get staff that are knowledgeable, that can on-board new staff, the correct way and not the old way.
      Old is Old for a reason.
      Get up with the times and start changing the infrastructure. your a bank. making heaps and heaps a year and i am still using XP (yes, Windows XP) - pathetic.

    9. "Perfect Bank"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      Great bosses, great pay

      Cons

      Not enough business sometimes

    10. Helpful (5)

      "One step forward 5 steps back"

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      Current Employee - Financial Analyst in Brisbane
      Current Employee - Financial Analyst in Brisbane
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Bank of Queensland full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Finally the board did something - got rid of the CEO but it was too late as damage has already been done. Great offices. Great christmas parties in all states. great PR team.

      Cons

      Not much top talent left- Why the board would let the Group executive brendon white leave just shows how out of touch the bank is - he and peter deans were the only members that cared and fought for business bank. Now watch the new retail executive try to undo all the great work done by them. Senior leadership team fight gossip and bully to further their own agenda - all are after the top job. No one cares anymore. Its not safe to speak up as you get shut down and black listed. IT doesn’t work.

      Advice to Management

      time to clear the executive committee out. Listen to what the bank needs, look at the facts. Be fair to all departments not just favour the retail bank that is not successful. Cut down on IT staff travelling -it’s not a good look.