ABN AMRO Reviews

Pros

Good Salary
Good Management
Good Office
Excellent work culture

Cons

Stress work
Lots of peer pressure
HR not good

Advice to Senior Management

Please try and make work as fun rather than duty.

Pros

- Entepreneurial, can get things done

Cons

-Weak senior management with limited vision or execution capability
- Informal dutch management structure, difficult to penetrate
- Inconsistent credit culture

Pros

Work life balance is there

Cons

Freshers in industry who really want to have good exposure in their professional life will definitely find job as no challenge

Advice to Senior Management

Should explain the actual profile to candidates rather than exagerating the things.

Pros

It's one of the most well-known bank in the Netherlands. It provide pretigeous feeling and makes CV look nice. Good start for career.

Cons

Development opportunity are limited in the sense that most of the learning resources are in Dutch. It's still not international enough.

Advice to Senior Management

Develop the bank to an international institution; Increase the reputation of the bank globally; continuously develop the competitive advantage of the bank.

Pros

Some good people, good work/life balance.

Cons

Poor management, too willing to allow bad employees to remain.

Pros

Relatively relax working environment.
Nice colleagues around.
Good location in the Netherlands.
Better working environment in the Netherlands than London.

Cons

Too many Dutch people. More international people would have positive contribution.
Great potential of improvement in higher management.
High taxation in Netherlands.

Advice to Senior Management

Promote an more international environment.
Focus on international market as well as the Dutch market which has too much competition.
Try to retain talents instead of playing politics.

Pros

Good international career possibilities and opportunities to relocate. But i guess not anymore now as the bank is fully focused on the netherlands. However i understood that they are trying to internationalise again.

Cons

Incompetent senior managent. Extremely inward looking and lots of leadership by fear. Arrogant. Especially the management coming from other ( investment) banks who were non performers at their particular previous employer now try to show their superiority at abn amro.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more inclusive and lead by example

Pros

Respect work life balance and friendly atmosphere.

Cons

Very low pay and rewards.

Advice to Senior Management

Some time needs to be spent to ensure that rewards to employees are fair.

Pros

Benefits are not too bad.
Holidays generally quite good.
Some decent hard working employees.
Fairly relaxed environment to work in.

Cons

Awful bonuses.
Senior management incompetent at best.
Total lack of guidance and support.
Blame culture.
Hard work not rewarded.
Management look after themselves.

Advice to Senior Management

Resign. All of you. Seriously though - there are many wonderful and capable staff who are loyal and work hard for the company and yet you manage to constantly make a mess of things some some shocking policy decisions. Shame on you.

Pros

Efforts were made to minimize job losses due to the economic downturn. There are some very talented people here .

Cons

Poor senior management, performance review and bonus are poor. There almost appears to be a manage by bureaucracy to frustrate people into leaving. Company was nationalize and many of my overseas colleagues were unsure if they had jobs. Company did not manage the communication very well.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat people as you would want to be treated. Give accurate and complete messages. Be honest with people about the status of the organization because we know when are being misled.