Pros
It's a local bank locally managed
Cons
This bank formerly known as North Community Bank was once that job I always wanted to have. Great coworkers, bosses, and customers. The bank had a community feel and that's what set it apart from other banks. Fast forward to 2015 the bank is a mere shell of its former self. The bank was under a consent order from the FDIC from 2009 to mid 2014. The recession and the housing bubble almost caused the bank to fail. Having worked for the bank during the best years a lot of us decided to Weather the storm and stay with the bank. The bank was bought in 2013 by a private group of investors, they made positive changes pretty quickly but have yet to address salaries with current employees. The employees that stuck with the company through the bad years are not eligible to get raises unless they look for another opportunity internally that would be considered a promotion. Yet come in from the outside and you'll get paid a fair wage. The excuse is people have different experience education Etc. That's just part of the problem. There are so many problems within the organization. The Regional Managers that we report to are scared of their boss. When we have concerns we address them to our Region Managers with the expectation that she will hear about them. The message is never passed along and swept under the rug. When we have our quarterly meetings and the She is there, she asks us to bring up any concerns we have. She says we can ask anything, that it's a "safe zone". No one believes her and people don't ask any questions. In my experience if she doesn't like the question she will ignore it and move on. She has unrealistic expectations of the sales we should generate as a bank. The bank expects us to produce when they do not want to invest in advertising and in their people. The only way they will attain it s by engaging all of the employees and creating a culture where employees outside of headquarters feel valued. Coming to the branches once a year to say "hello"