Fremont Bank Reviews

Volatile environment, no management support, poor training, no team atmosphere, quick to lay off, no loyalty or respect for people.

IT leadership is unqualified and lacks a strong strategy. This leads to a lot of reactionary, last-minute work that pulls directors and senior managers away from their teams and planned projects. The systems are generally very old and approaches outdated, the new management's grand plan for a "digital transformation" appears to be buying a better mousetrap. The few talented employees in IT are leaving quickly and the people who remain probably couldn't get a job anywhere else. Some of the most promising new hires left in a year or less, that's telling. Tech staff severely underpaid and the more senior you are, the worst your work-life balance is. I regularly worked 60+ hours / week. Heavy and unabashed favoritism for new people brought in from Bank of the West. You won't really work for Fremont Bank, but the Fremont division of BotW. I actually heard the CIO disregard something one employee said, then 5-min later a "golden child" from BotW said the same thing and all the sudden that's what needed to happen.