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First Citizens Federal Credit Union Reviews

3.4

70% would recommend to a friend

(36 total reviews)
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Peter Muise and Chris Howard

100% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

First Citizens Federal Credit Union has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 36 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The First Citizens Federal Credit Union 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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36 reviews
1.0
30 Aug 2015

FCFCU

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Company outings CEO & COO know everyone by name and take interest in personal lives of employees Fun Fridays where you play lawn games outside for a half hour to an hour

Cons

No real benefits of being an employee, if you overdraft your account they will close it out, Pay is low in comparison to other institutions by about 15%-20% 401k isn't great, health benefits are overpriced and terrible, stressful environment, stressful customers, branches do not have a procedure book so every account opened is different, no consistency in the branches No consistency from managers They tell you you have growth opportunities and instead of letting an employee move up they hire from outside the company. Promotions only given to management No annual pay increases as of 2015, now the is s bonus incentive in place but it does not increase your actual salary. The employees that have be there for 25 or more years feel entitled to everything but do not help with team projects also they bring moral down. Multiple managers telling you to do different things

2.0
21 Dec 2019

Stressful and lack of confidence in management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Coffee, food, southcoast cafe, employee celebration events, tuition reimbursement. Some benefits are good. You can learn a lot in a short amount of time here. There are advancement opportunities for some departments. This will depend on your manager or department. Community volunteers and some new technology.

Cons

Serious downturn in past years, negative morale in company administration center. There were many uneducated decisions made without long term strategy. The company departments work in silos and no one is on the same page. Negative attitudes, back stabbing managers, zero confidentiality, failure metrics, burnout, constant employee turnover. Most departments are heavily understaffed, many are rude, and unhelpful. Too many sick call outs. The company continues to cut staff and add more difficult projects. Way too many meetings and unrealistic expectations. Weak managers, zero confidence to speak up (out of fear of retaliation) for what is actually right for the customer or employee. So we essentially get a bunch of "bobble heads" and waste our time in meetings.

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First Citizens Federal Credit Union Response
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First, we would like to thank you for being a valuable team member of ours for over 5 years. We sincerely appreciate your feedback. Constructive criticism is necessary for us to ensure we are Doing Better Everyday. You have mentioned opportunities we are actively working on and would like to discuss further. Your personal experiences will only help us grow and succeed. If you would like to discuss these matter further, please email TEAM-HR@firstcitizens.org or Marketing@firstcitizens.org. Thank you again and we wish you well in your future ventures.
1.0
18 June 2019

Careful while Reading Reviews

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you can get past the glass ceiling in this company then you will have no complaints, but good luck with that.

Cons

I believe some of the recent reviews are fake being created with staffing motives. They create positions with people in mind and if those individuals do not apply the positions mysteriously dissappear. They've done away with raises so instead they continue to change position names at the top in order to give themselves higher salaries. They are grossly understaffed in the lower sector and the HR department is inaccessible and for company interests only.

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