Santander reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(8,358 total reviews)
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Héctor Grisi

87% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Santander has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 8,358 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
2.0
Mar 27, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Generally great people to work with - Good bonuses, benefits - Management is proactive about giving promotions - Lots of room for career changes

Cons

- Their IT department is literally vanishing due to cost-cutting - Highly developed, but outdated tech stack - Relies on a third-party contractor and black box technology for their data endpoint - Office floor plan lends itself to some irritating noise interference if you're not using headphones - Base salary for most developer positions are a bit underpaid, but bonuses are good to compensate for some of it

1.0
Mar 22, 2018

Gets worse and worse...

Recommend
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Pros

Good technology projects. Tech is advanced compared to other banks.

Cons

Can be extremely bureaucratic, especially with procurement. Risk management done badly for many years led to panicked reactions. Lots of politicking. Leadership in some areas is very toxic and incompetent. Lots of sudden disappearances of long term employees.

1.0
Jan 8, 2018

Bad Management & HR Dept.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay is above average

Cons

The powers that be refuse to unionize and are intimidating those that have an interest in helping build a union. They are penalizing non-exempt employees that receive monthly bonuses by prorating them for using planned PTO, Jury Duty and Bereavement time. Who does that?? I’ll just tell my relatives to please don’t die this month because I’ve already taken 5 days off and I need my full bonus. How can you penalize someone for going to Jury Duty, it’s the law and you never know when you will be called. For that matter how can you penalize someone for taking a planned vacation? They give you all this PTO but will only let you carry over 40 hours so you either lose some of your bonus or you lose your PTO. Either way the company wins. I have never worked for a company with such evil intentions as this one. Add that to being surrounded by childish people that act like their still in middle school and speak and dress like they’re completely uneducated and have no idea they’re in a place of business it’s a miserable eight hours. Zero room for advancement unless you are related to someone, friends with someone or in a relationship with someone or tiny and cute. There was a management training class opportunity and in my department three people were picked by managers instead of them asking everyone who was interested and going from there they just picked who they wanted to have the opportunity. Morale was already in the toilet and that made it even worse. One person was picked simply because they had gone to HR on the managers and would have gone to HR again if they hadn’t been picked. There was someone far more qualified to be in that class. They have the nerve to preach about ethics..please. I’m not even going to get into the ghetto & childish people (including the 40+ crowd) that bully and act like they’re still in middle school. Don’t get sucked in. You’d be better off working at the Chic Fil A across the street.

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