ClearBank Reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(200 total reviews)

Mark Fairless

57% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

ClearBank has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 200 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ClearBank employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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200 reviews
1.0
26 May 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Some very talented and good to know people work here

Cons

Engineering department is managed very poorly. Newly promoted CTO and his group of Engineering Managers are clueless in their roles. Biased agenda in favour of 'yes men', where if you do not agree blindly with the CTO or managers then you are targetted to be pushed out of the company. No fairness. CTO is the worst i have ever worked under, does not understand simple things that even a graduate would... how he has become CTO is baffling. No respect for employees, even HR are in on the act when employees are targetted with abuse/false allegations and trumped up lies to force a disciplinary process to get them out the company. Incompetence is a nice way of putting it. Bullying and harrasment by CTO and engineering managers towards people they do not like is common, some people end up resigning from the hostile environment, others are forced out with lies of performance related issues. Simply put, engineering leadership is more like a gang of thugs than a professional outfit of any kind. People are considered resource and never 'people'. Backwards mentality to work processes and people management (or should i say lack of management). The hard working colleagues who have been screwed over by this gang of incompetent bullies have been some of the best in their respective roles, all targetted because the hierachy wants robots who do as they are told instead of doing the right thing.

3.0
20 Feb 2018

New bank veneer, old bank feel

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Start-up bank, based in central London. The benefits of working for a start-up bank and all the excitement that entails, without worrying about whether they can afford my next pay cheque, because of its solid funding.

Cons

Very old-school bank culture. Departments operate in strict silos and ideas come only from the top.

1.0
9 Aug 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Nice colleagues. Good social life.

Cons

- Employees are treated like expendable resources, hence the turnover is high. - Very authoritarian engineering management. Frequent process changes with very little warning and feedback rarely taken onboard. - Frequent organisational changes which mean that you may not end up with the role you were hired for. - Blame culture. Teams are paraded in from on the department having to explain why they running off schedule. - Complete disengagement from the business about what the engineering teams are doing. - Frequent priority changes which mean that teams rarely delivery projects before they're scrapped to make way for something else. - Frequent changes in senior leadership. - Not even close to being profitable after 5 years of operation.

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