Santander reviews

The application development teams pretend to run agile/scrum, but there is a complete lack of organization and direction from the business. Things change on almost a daily basis. Application Development talks about standards but is burdened with an outdated, legacy code base, and there is never time to re-factor and fix it so performance continually degrades and delivering new functionality is very difficult. The location is in a bad part of town

I have been a full time credit analyst at Santander for almost 2 years. I was part of the inaugural class of commercial credit training analysts. I would like to warn future candidates to avoid this company and program at all costs. The program manager straight up lies through her teeth about the opportunities you will receive and after a year of rotations there is little to no thought or care given to where they place analysts. In fact they sent 25% of the inaugural class to different states against their desire to stay in Boston. They have a huge claw back (30K if you leave/get fired in the first year, 15K in the second) so you are quite literally chained to this job. There is 0 clarity about career promotion. There is a revolving door of senior management... In my time I am not on my third heard of the the commercial bank (in under 2 years). The exit opportunities are minimal as the bank is not well respected in the finance community . Do not think that you will get IB exit opportunistic. The compensation is bare minimum and overall they care very little about junior level employees. You are better off working somewhere else. On top of that the actual work you are given is trivial and mindless and does not help to grow or develop you as an individual at all.