First Cal reviews

3.1

34% would recommend to a friend

(25 total reviews)

31% positive business outlook

First Cal has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 25 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The First Cal employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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25 reviews
1.0
May 1, 2016

Poor management, poor business decisions and poor treatment of employees

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The computer system they use for origination and underwriting is awesome! But that's all that's good. I made friends there only to have my heart broke.

Cons

This company has high turnover and they cannot seem to keep good employees. All of the employees who were integral to the success to the company have been laid off or were basically forced to quit. They will throw you under the bus for anything and no one takes any responsibility. Instead of saying it's not my fault, it would just take a few minutes to correct what was wrong. And if anyone disagrees with sales watch out! It's all about sales and they won't hesitate to set you up to fail and boot you out the first chance they get. I never had benefits there since they're expensive. Time off is 2 weeks vacation and 1 week sick. They also will not give raises. You may even try to move up in a better position and then they make you lose all bonus or extra pay you were receiving just to keep you down. I would not work there again. When they let people go they just put them on a cattle phone call, tell everyone on the call they are fired with no severance and to have a nice day! After working so hard for a company, to not even get a call from your manager (even if they are gonna give you some bull about a "business decision") is just tasteless. If you are going to work here BEWARE and don't invest your heart because as soon as you speak up-bye bye.

1.0
May 23, 2016

The worst company anyone could work for!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are no Pros about this company. They are deceptive when hiring & once you're on, there's no good training in place. Setting up people to fail.

Cons

Severely Understaffed. Employees are overworked (Underwriters, processors & closers). The company doesn't care about its employees. HR department does not follow the Employee handbook and doesn't properly follow protocol on employee complaints. Upper level Managers are incompetent and don't properly support their employees. Managers lie to cover themselves & have the employees get the blame. There isn't any accountability on upper management who acts impulsively & has bursts of anger.

1.0
Aug 16, 2017

Not a good place to work

Recommend
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Pros

good people, bagels on fridays

Cons

People are really under paid here and live in fear of being laidoff. I agree wtih another poster that they don't respect employees unless your sales. Most of the staff was really depressed after they fired a ton of people right before Christmas and then took away 20% of the rest of our pay. It was super messed up and they did hire a executive when we didnt have full pay. I work here because I need the benefits but Uber pays better. I woud not tell anyone I care for to work here.

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