Bank of America Reviews in Los Angeles, CA Area

Pros

Day goes by fast and helping homeowners is a great feeling!

Cons

lots of multitasking. goals are hard to meet

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Good Hour with college students
WOULD HIGH ENCOURAGE OTHER TO APPLY out of highschool
Take an R.O.P course and your basically in
THEY DONT DRUG TEST

Cons

Management Bad
Co workers Bad
Upper Management Bad

Advice to Senior Management

Try harder to have more gm for bank and not just one. Management should be stickly watched. Shady bank

Pros

* Great vacation package
* Very good work / life balance
* Access to online training (credit, wealth management, investment banking, etc...)
* Ability to move to other groups within BAC

Cons

* Hierarchical incompetence
* Command Hierarchy (opposite of flat organization)
* No freedom to question analysis or process
* "Yes Men" mentality

Advice to Senior Management

Be honest with job candidates about job responsibilities, opportunities for advancement, and bonus structure. This will hopefully reduce turnover at all levels, especially at the middle management level. Rely on team members for input regarding analysis/analytics, process changes, and IT changes instead of six sigma analysis.

Pros

Large company, fairly stable, many things to work on.

Cons

Way too bueurocratic, too many meetings, there are a lot of people who don't seem to add much value. Those people run around trying to present your work to senior management.

Advice to Senior Management

Figure out which people actually do work, and get rid of some of the people who don't really do anything.

Pros

Stability in Job and Exposure for business.

Cons

Slow growth in Information Technology.

Advice to Senior Management

Move people around. They will remain satisfied.

Pros

Ability to have a semi-flexible schedule

Cons

Management touts customer service values, but all they really care about is making the most amount of money at the expense of others.

Pros

Opportunity to get better promotion

Cons

Fast paced bank be yourself

Advice to Senior Management

Work hard to meet your goal

Pros

everyone is friendly and professional
one month paid vacation
fantastic benefit package
various associates programs
bank of opportunity
it is bank of america

Cons

working at the call center is really stressful
many associates don't know what they are supposed to do
too many line of business, easy to got confussed

Advice to Senior Management

lower the fee, make your customer happy
make the online banking easy to understand, make your online banking customer happy

Pros

Compensation, vacation time (3 weeks to start), 401k, on-site gym (Simi Valley location), lots of security, flexible work schedule, relaxed dress code for people not working with the public.

Cons

My biggest concern was poor training. I received "the bum's rush" each time I met with my trainer. The person who was training me clearly knew her job; however, she did not want to train me (I'm sure her workload could barely handle it); she had absolutely no personality and made me feel inferior with every question I had.
Most of my work was done on spreadsheets. I have the knowledge in Excel to perform my job; however, my trainer always started the session without explaining what we were doing. It was basically: "click here; go here; put it here; and make sure they give you all the back-up. Let me know if you have any questions." She also told me that if I took notes it would slow her down too much so I had to try to commit everything to memory. When I asked about timelines for projects, she just nodded her head. What?
Only a few co-workers actually said to me "it's a lot to learn and will take awhile." Other than that, I was made to feel like a complete idiot, of which I am not.
My Supervisor was not available for questions I had. My first week there she didn't speak with me. (Yes, this is true.) I was told by another team Supervisor that my Supervisor was new to that position, but come on ... if I were the Supervisor, I would probably check in a few times each day just to make sure everything was OK with the "new hire."
Each time I asked her if I could speak with her, she was always "going into a meeting," "pressed for time," "have to make a phone call."
I have a strong work ethic and do my job well. I am not a person who needs constant supervision or constant pats on the back: I go to work; do my job; am confident; and am a well-liked coworker who enjoys being part of a team and am always ready to pitch in.
I like to be busy at the office and have little patience for slackers so I really thought I would fit in at B of A, but it was a terrible experience.
It's really too bad because I would have been a valuable asset to the team.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate with employees; provide new hires with proper training by qualified individuals; make new hires feel welcome and not like obstacles.

Pros

Laidback work environment for smart people. we can enjoy with family in a much better fashion than anywhere else. Can retire here

Cons

less oppurtunity for growth. Too many old people piled up in ranks.Too much unnecessary process and software developement could be very hard in here.

Advice to Senior Management

upper management need to do much introspection of their resources. Too many Band 4 people by virtue of them staying in here for longer than they are worth of.