Washington Mutual Reviews

Pros

people were very nice where i worked

Cons

schedule was very flexible when needed

Advice to Senior Management

listen to the problems people may have when dealing with customers

Pros

Work with low and moderate income consumers and community groups.

Cons

Little opportunity to grow educationally

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

Co-workers were the best and brightest
Work-Life Balance was good
Lots of innovative ideas

Cons

Middle management was the heart of the company but the first to be let go during reorgs
Upper management lost sight of what was important

Advice to Senior Management

The bottom line is not the most important aspect of running a company.

Pros

Excellent place to work if you wnat experience in Regulatory Compliance.

Cons

Rigid work life balance outlook. Few tele-workers.

Pros

WaMu had a very diverse group of people to work with and everyone knew what they were doing and very knowledgeable.

Cons

Did not feel like I was needed and was constantly felt underrated and disrespected by management and felt they had little faith in my work.

Advice to Senior Management

Management could make the team feel a little more included and treat those working under them with more respect and value.

Pros

To employees, the company was 100% transparent (perhaps, if they treated shareholders the same, the bank might still be in business.)

Cons

As a whole staff lacked passion. Also, to avoid layoffs, employees were transferred to new teams whether they posses core competencies or not. This in turn, hurt the overall work produced. Very difficult for promotion outside of Seattle.

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing is going to bring back this place

Pros

Co-workers are great to work with.

Cons

The customers can be demanding.

Pros

Friendly and professional atmosphere. Senior management values your work.

Cons

Had too many reorgs after 2003...

Pros

One of the most humane places I have worked. The people were great.

Cons

Chaotic decision making at times added to stress.

Advice to Senior Management

Too bad the offer from Dimon and Co wasn't accepted in Spring, 09- maybe some of the jobs could have been saved.

Pros

Compensation structure was amazing, full range of products and services, and the ability to run each branch as your own business

Cons

bad loans, customer service support was weak, and too much and too many different things that created confusion within company and meeting goals

Advice to Senior Management

great job on recognizing talents and promoting form witin. Your best staff was from day one hires, great PACE mamangement training program as wekk