Wells Fargo reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(54,471 total reviews)
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Charlie Scharf

61% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Wells Fargo has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 54,471 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Wells Fargo employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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4.0
Jun 20, 2008
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Pros

Wells Fargo has great benefits and my managers have always been very flexible when I needed to work odd hours, etc. Immediate managers seem to care about their people and helping them. Wells Fargo has something like 80 different lines of business, which means there are plenty of places to go if you decide you want a change but don't want to leave the bank. A lot of employees have been here for many years, and it's easy to grow a network of contacts over time if you stick around long enough. There are a lot of training opportunities available, if you can get your management to pay for it.

Cons

Most senior management is often out of touch with what is really going on. There seems to be no logic behind promotions and titles. Someone who has worked here for less than a year can be given an AVP title, while someone who is a recognized contributor and has worked here for 5 years is not nominated. It's often very easy for a slacker to hide among real contributors, and benefit from the group's achievements. There are a lot of redundencies in work efforts. A project is kicked off, work is done, and then the project is canceled for some reason. A year later, we kick off again and have to re-do everything. The "sales culture" leads to people who make a lot of money for the bank getting the most recognition, while the people behind the scenes who made it happen operationally are overlooked.

3.0
Jun 20, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

A good portion of managers receive training on how to support their employees more effectively; training, coaching and using resources.

Cons

People are expected to work their way up from the very bottom. Having a higher educational degree is not recognized as an asset. I've read an email where a mid-level manager wrote, "a college degree only shows they know how to test well." Many mid-level managers have no secondary education and end up repeating operational mistakes; with human resource management, ethical behaviors, and appropriate risk management; over and over again.

4.0
Jun 20, 2008

Great Place to Work - Wells Fargo.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great opportunities to learn / advance within the company. Encourages personal development through training opportunities outside and within the company. Managers are helpful in understanding personal needs and making accommodations to individuals. Friendly atmosphere, great co-workers, great enviornment to work in, customers are pleasant, great benefits, great vacation time and jobs security.

Cons

Wells Fargo is generally a great, exciting, fast pased, motivating place to work. There are the same drawbacks that any large comany would have but I can't even think of what they are at the moment so they cant be that bad.

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