U.S. Bank Reviews in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN Area

Pros

stable, good people, flexible, fiscally conservative

Cons

youth culture favoritism; very inexperienced firstline and middle managers; degree of elitism infects some groups

Advice to Senior Management

your not being fair to older workers

Pros

Not too much work pressure.
Comparable compensation.
401k match and pension.
couple of times I got chance to learn new technologies

Cons

Micro management by middle management.
Occasional work from home is not company wide policy it is completely at the mercy of supervisor.
No scope of internal transfers.
Even technical trainings team members do not have choice to choose, training selection is also by management.
My immediate supervisor doubts I am really sick or not even for a half a day sick time.

Advice to Senior Management

Things like occasional work from home, choice to technologies for training should be more or corporate culture rather than full whims of manager.
Internal transfers should be made easier and simple.

Pros

work life balance such as flexibility to work from home
relatively flat orgnazational structure
lay back culture, not a lot of aggressiveness

Cons

Little career advancement opportunity. you will have to take charge of your own career development
you don't feel intellectual challenged

Advice to Senior Management

improve hiring practice and hire smart people
enhance the managment skill training
stop promoting "wrong" type of person to manager position

Pros

Benefits are good, Most departments have flexible work hours and try to work with you on your schedule

Cons

The communication from the management in a lot of the departments is lacking. Different departments do not work as a team to help the clients

Advice to Senior Management

Look closer at who you have in your lower management positions.

Pros

*Excellent location in downtown Minneapolis. You can't beat the skyway system in the winter.
*Great work/life balance. You can actually have a life outside of work.
*Solid opportunities for advancement. You can always find new openings.

Cons

*Sub-par pay and benefits. You don't make as much as you would at comparable companies.
*Poor technology. You have a computer that looks like it's from the 1970's.
*No stipend for professional growth and development. You don't get any money for conferences.

Advice to Senior Management

You need to pay your top-performing employees what they're worth, or they'll all eventually leave for greener pastures elsewhere. Keep continuing to recognize that there is more to life than work.

Pros

The senior level management definitely shows a clear message of how they would like to take the company in the future. A lot of tools provided to training and career advancement.

Cons

The pay is below average for similar companies. The health care benefits are definitely below standard. Some middle managers are more concerned with micromanaging than the happiness of their employees.

Pros

Was able to work on complex and very engaging issues with upper management, which is unique for such a large bank.

Cons

There was a lot of excess work due to all of the issues occuring within the banking industry. The federal reserve being one of those issues.

Pros

U.S. Bank is a great place to get experience in. Some departments are great to work in and they want you to get promoted.

Cons

There are departments at U.S. Bank that are really bad to work in. They are bad in training, communication and management's leadership is not great. They don't treat their employees very well.

Pros

There are many opportunities within the company, you don't have to move out to get experience working in different fields. Very diversity.

Cons

lack of communications between management and employees; poor working environment;benefit is not very good, especially for medical insurance- high premium, low coverage

Advice to Senior Management

please communicate and share more information within the company, so the employees could have a better pictures of the company goal/plan; improve the working environment.

Pros

Lots of variety in job duties, very competent management, yearly reviews with lots of good feedback. Great culture focused on ethics

Cons

Lots of lateral promotions, however the opportunities are out there if you work hard to find them. Some of the technology that you are provided is out dated