Far Bank Reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(29 total reviews)

Ryan Hamilton

Not enough data to show CEO approval

58% positive business outlook

Far Bank has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 29 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Far Bank employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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29 reviews
2.0
17 Apr 2017

Not a long term company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people are really pretty cool. There are lots of colorful personalities, and if you want to go out and have a beer, there are easily 20 people there worth having one with. They have the nicest HR staff I have personally ever met.

Cons

The pay is sub par by about 20 grand per annum and up to 40 if you compare it to Seattle. Any of the professional jobs in finance, IT, engineering, process management, etc are all dead end jobs with no chance of promotion. Managers are generally aware of this and resigned to the point of making colorful jokes about how you will find a better job and leave, which sort makes you want to look for one. If you've ever had a decent annual or quarterly bonus then the bonus here will actually make you laugh. The hourly people are treated as lesser, and generally jerked around with layoffs and odd hours. People go on expensive company paid trips even though the production workers suffer through plant shut downs where they miss out on pay two weeks before Christmas.

2.0
20 Sept 2017

Sales

Anonymous employee
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Pros

great fishing culture and fun people

Cons

No real direction from management

3.0
21 July 2014
Recommend
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Pros

If you are a fly fisher, working here is great. You have access to top of the line rods to borrow, and great discounts on gear. the work generally isn't difficult, although its repetitive. depending on your position, the pay can be pretty good. the benefits are alright. They do take a lot of pride int heir product and customer service. The upper management are generally all really nice and approachable people. Scott, The production manager is probably my favorite person there and he really made me feel appreciated and valued.

Cons

policies are not applied evenly in the company, they can differ greatly between departments. the work can be boring and repetitive. The supervisors generally don't know how to do the jobs of the people they are supporting, which means they cant provide feedback on how to improve an have to rely on other employees for the training, which is always distracted. It's basically impossible to be promoted, especially if you work on the production floor. you can move between production departments, but not into the front office. they rarely promote from within, generally hiring from the outside. There tends to be cliques and its hard to break in to one. all of the production departments have to work insane overtime (6 days a week, 10hrs a day) during various parts of the year, for warranty its more than half the year. The supervisors however, don't work this overtime. There is also a lot of turn over

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