Wells Fargo

• Great PTO
• Good starting pay
• Decent benefits

Dependent on LOB:

• Work/life balance

• Abysmal raises. 1-2% is the norm. If the bank has some scandal or fines, expect the raise to be lower, even if your job function is completely unrelated to said scandal.

• Stack rankings. Even if your entire team "exceeds," not everyone can have that for their performance rating, so you'll often be at "meets" even if you performed extremely well.

• Promotions will only happen for those in HUB locations. If you aren't in one of those, you will not advance in your career.

• Terrible offices. Don't even have free coffee at many.

• Forced "return" to office, even for those that were 100% remote for years (or in some cases, decades) when hired, because "that's the direction the company is going in."

• Increased offshoring to underqualified resources, many of whom don't speak English very well. Offshore resources have CONSTANT turnover as well (because of how little they get paid), so by the time you get one somewhat functional, there are two more that are quitting.

• Increased red tape to get anything done.

• Considerably increased separation of "duties." Want to restart your dev server? Open a ticket; you can't do that yourself anymore! Want to troubleshoot a production issue? Contact production support; you can't be trusted with production access! Have fun waiting several days to get a response as well. Want database access so you can see what's going on in UAT so you can support testers? NOPE! Want to be silo'd? WF is for you.

• Way too stuck in the past with hiring and retention practices and seem to think that the "Wells Fargo" brand can attract good talent alone. It can't. In fact, it took nearly a year just to backfill one engineer on my team with someone who is severely inept.

• Wells Fargo seems more interested with cutting costs and benefits, regardless of the impact.

• Their idea of diversity and inclusion is an absolute joke. Every single LGBTQ person in my group (several genders and races) have been replaced by Indian men.

Nothing. Senior management/leadership literally doesn't listen to any of their employees and is more focused on copying their banking peers (Chase, Bank of America) than anything else. They think their brand alone can attract talent. News flash: your brand is trash and continues to get worse.