Santander reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(8,355 total reviews)
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Héctor Grisi

86% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Santander has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 8,355 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Santander employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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8K reviews
1.0
May 15, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

If you're part of the majority you'll be hired and given special company sponsored training, networking, and career development. Higher ups have conversations on how to encourage and promote more people of the majority. And you will be given promotions at a higher rate than non majority groups. The LITERAL MAJORITY at Santander is people of color and woman. So if you fit that mold this is perfect for you. If for example you happen to be male and Asian, look some where else.

Cons

The problem is, when they send out company wide emails saying these groups are to help "minorities" and the actual associate population is opposite of that then you have a lie, politics, and propaganda. They provide almost nothing to the general associate population. Lack of training is a rampant problem.

2.0
May 4, 2018

A stepping stone

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Located in one of the nicest office buildings in downtown - Flexible schedule and culture - Likely you will experience little to no supervision - Good work/life balance - Everyone pretends they care

Cons

- You may work hard and not advance very far only to see others as exceptions to this rule. I assure you those folks are tied to a E/C/VP/SVP (daughter, friends kid, college buddy, former colleague). - The company tells employees to strive for "customer" excellence which is ironic to their whole business model. It is not a company goal at the end of the day. - Those who leave are never backfilled. You are expected to pick up the slack. - No direction. You may find the boys club at the YMCA playing basketball. - Leadership is a tight knit network of people who have been buddies for a long time. They only hire people they know. This is how they retain their six figure salaries doing little to no work.

3.0
Oct 3, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Staff is generally friendly, very busy environment and days go by fast. Benefits are not half bad if your just covering yourself. Very flexible for the most part, but all depends who your report too.

Cons

Lacks good leadership, to many changes at once no stability with IT systems. To many unqualified people doing the work of many while managers sit behind closed doors. just make sure you keep your skills updated on your resume , when your voice of reason tells you it's time to move on, listen to that voice, it will be the best choice you ever made.

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