Marshall & Ilsley Reviews

Pros

Good Place for work life balance

Cons

Lack of young energetic peers

Pros

Family oriented and golden rule environment.

Cons

Once the bad loans started the place went downhill fast.

Advice to Senior Management

Do not make too many construction loans in cyclical econmies like Florida and Arizona.

Pros

Work life balance exists compensation is good if you have worked else where before.

Cons

Egotistical and power hungry enviornment.

Pros

Competitive pay, great leadership skills for your resume, very flexible with appointments, good benefits, quality training for employees,

Cons

Constant interruptions makes completing tasks a burden, micro-management from the top down, if one employee makes a mistake management tends to think it's an issue with the entire group and no job advancement opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees. They have quality ideas and are often more in touch with the environment then you are as they constantly are dealing with it. They are the expects and deserve your ear.

Pros

Good market share. Decent benefits. Culture designed to benefit tenured staff.

Cons

Inexperienced and/or bureaucratic middle management. Too much image over substance. Too much theory over experience. I had 3 different managers in 18 months who were all quick to make sweeping changes and pay lip service to the positives it would bring in tyheory, but unable to recognize how or why their changes introduced conflict, disincentives and pressure on their own business unit and personel. Really simple, practical level stuff that was simply ignored. I guess they didn't cover managerial decision making at Toastmaster's.

Advice to Senior Management

When staffing middle management, look for real character, experience, wisdom and leadership ability, not tenured clerks or vapid young climbers.

Pros

Community involvement programs, employees are encouraged to help others
Most employees are friendly and outgoing
Employees are generally empowered to do the right thing

Cons

Senior management does not to a good job of communicationg a strategic vision (that is the main reason M&I was bought out by BMO)
C-level execs can come across as unreceptive to new ideas and leveraging technolgy
Mid to upper level management folks can be downright arrogant

Advice to Senior Management

Be candid in delivering feedback -- don't sugar-coat the impact that the BMO buyout will have in terms of job losses

Pros

Good team environment
Very supportive mgmt
very good technical processes and procedures
work with people that want to be there and enjoy their jobs
Good health care benefits and other fringe benefits

Cons

The fact that we are being sold is the biggest downside, very little comm from senior mgmt... The guys one the 6th floor

Pros

Merger with BMO is exciting news

Cons

Poor communitcation from upper management

Pros

Nice people, many very talented

Cons

Limited innovation / entrepreneurial spirit

Advice to Senior Management

More collaboration amongst employees

Pros

Most Employees are very cooperative and team oriented. With emloyee education, the referral opportunities are there. Most bank management is helpful

Cons

I have seen employees intimidated by certain managers to try to get them to quit. There is a lot of politics and backstabbing. Bankers have a high turnover rate

Advice to Senior Management

Obey "The Golden Rule" as your mission statement says. Do not have management jobs unfulfilled just to save money. Have a unified vision to grow the business