It is a good place to work at, it just was a better place - Accountant Close Brothers Employee Review

- career wise: had to leave because I felt I had hit my ceiling here or I was just not good enough at my job or I was just on the wrong team especially when I could see people around me getting promoted - weird organizational structures with a basically non existent overarching central function, so different teams from different offices who do essentially the same things can have different practices - at times I felt like getting some people to do their job was harder than getting blood out of a stone - very non competitive salary - look at the share price… the downfall was partly due to the motor finance shenanigans (although why only Close Brothers is the only lender with the most significant exposure is also not excusable) but also because of a number of serious senior management mistakes - over the past few years I’ve seen a few newly acquired businesses make huge losses and being wound down