Pros
Some of the people you meet are really nice.
Cons
This place has really poor culture towards females and working parents. Even during covid, flexible working isn’t something they think is important. The ceo hasn’t even done a townhall or communication on the banks performance since he joined last april. There is no control over the executive team which are all male. The executive team have mostly been promoted from Head of roles and have no experience so they make you work to ridiculous deadlines for a piece of work, then they ask you to make loads of changes, then they take months to make a decision because they don’t want to take responsibility for anything and they can never agree with each other. So you end working stupid hours everyday all for something that doesn’t happen until sometimes months later and if it goes wrong you will be blamed. They argue with each other in emails. You can be talked down to as a female and shouted at in meetings by an executive or heads of but nobody says anything. There are so few staff doing the work but so many head of roles for a small bank and all of them are men but two. The HR department are constantly busy with grievances and good people are leaving all the time but HR can’t sort it because they and not really part of the executive team so nobody wants to listen to them. Performance reviews and a waste of time because everyone wants an exceed just for bonus but it doesn’t matter how hard you work, if you’re executive doesn’t “see” it then you’re not an exceed. You expected to do extra work with no extra staffing all the time but your salary never shows this. This really isn’t a nice place to work if you’re looking for good culture in your next job.