Santander reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(8,371 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 8,371 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
Jul 5, 2016

Gettng worse by the second

Recommend
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Pros

Paid training with hotels, food, travel free. All Sundays off. Great vision coverage. Lynda training free if you want to learn things like it offers.Thats it.

Cons

This place is declining fast. Every day you go into work and get at least one district exec email threatening your region. WE MUST DO BETTER, THIS IS NON NEGOTIABLE! WE NEED X AMOUNT OF LOANS, X AMOUNT OF INVESTMENTS, X AMOUNT OF NEW MONEY OR HEADS WILL ROLL. Then you have short staff (to make P&L look better), missing branch managers, coddled BMS to cover for managers being useless or out of the office, new pay structure to severely reduce a payout you only get four days of the year anyhow (which comes as part of your regular paycheck, so taxes will take more of it too), mandatory call nights every week, constantly changing daily expectations, video monitoring of you at all times to see if you check your phone, dont walk every customer to the door, slouch or chew gum, etc. THEN add in that you can lose what little payout you could have made, because a customer was interviewed and complained about something that never even happened at your branch. They spend tons of money on stupid things, on football and box seats and racing cars and trips not offered to your region, golf outings for the upper employees. But they are lowering the ability for customer facing daily grinders to make ends meet, while we watch them on cruises and paid vacations.

3.0
Apr 13, 2016

Premier Banker

Recommend
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Pros

Hourly pay is good based on experience.

Cons

Commission and Bonus structure changed. The goals are much harder to reach, and commission is tied into bank side revenue. Unless you're in a very busy branch, a major city, or have a ton of connections, it's unlikely to receive a bonus worth the work required.

2.0
Dec 18, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The only real benefits are: 1) The total remuneration package is excellent. Basic pay, car allowance, pension contributions, bonus and 30 days holiday is normally enough to keep people there. 2) Most employees are feckless wasters so it only takes a tiny bit of effort to keep hold of your job and avoid too much negative scrutiny. It is very rare to have to stay beyond 5pm or arrive before 9am and your lunch hour is safe.

Cons

As alluded to above, most employees are either blindingly incompetent or lazy. It is rare to meet anyone of any use and those people are normally so fatigued from having to deal with the pointlessness of most activities that they cease to become effective. If you don't work for IT, forget trying to get anything meaningful done. The bank is swarming with "lifers" who do the same thing every day for 30 years without ever wondering why they are doing it.

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