Silicon Valley Bank Reviews

Pros

- Great benefits - Working with some of the coolest and most innovative clients in the industry - Excellent employee values and work/life balance - Plenty of open opportunities to move within the company, both vertically and laterally - Employee focused - Plenty of social opportunities outside of the office - Understanding and encouraging management

Cons

Some internal systems are outdated and clunky, and that can be seen as a hindrance when your primary client base are the leading and cutting edge companies in the tech and startup industry.

Advice to Management

Keep focusing on updating systems and putting the employees first and the sky is the limit!

Pros

-Great benefits -Can work remotely. -ALOT of collaboration -Helpful and nice employees. -There is some wonderful Koolaid to drink when you first start in the Marketing group.

Cons

-The Marketing group is not highly respected within the company so this leads to a lot of finger pointing and gossip. -Many layers of management for a small Marketing team. -There is no promoting from within. Prefer to hire manager/director level externally. -A lot of favoritism for those who are a friend of the CMO or a C level manager. -Bottoms up organization. No support from the top. -Many claim they have...

Pros

SVB hires great people to work with. I always say, there's no one I'd rather be in the trenches with than the people I work next to at SVB.

Cons

SVB likes the flashy things. Sometimes we stray from the path of delivering on the right thing because to do it well, it takes time and executive leadership seems to be impatient with results. Therefore, we start down a path and then change direction after investing a lot of time and money into something. We need to be better at making a decision and focusing on that project and delivering rather than always thinking...

Pros

Pay and compensation are higher than market. I am actually building new technology not just making change to old legacy software. Our IT leadership is great. CTO makes it her priority to know staff and makes sure we are motivated and engaged. All of my co-workers agree that for the first time in many years we have a clear direction and engineers and analysts are put first over contract staff. Changes are good and working....

Cons

Change can be unsettling but for people like me that know how to do a good job, help others and deliver my work, there are no cons.

Advice to Management

Support the changes in IT. Let’s build great technology in an efficient way to support SVB’s customers.

Pros

Good comp - above market

Cons

hard to move up and around

Pros

Culture, home verses work life balance

Cons

The Pay for Operations positions

Advice to Management

Pay operations more. Operations people are what make any business work, without Ops, the business would not thrive or survive. Prove that you appreciate their hard work and dedication by paying them what they deserve.

Pros

The people are willing to roll up their sleeves and do what it takes to get the job done. The company is a good company - and potential for company growth is there. Salary and benefits are good

Cons

Where do I start? I have been here a few years and normally a company gets better - sadly - it’s the opposite. Nepotism has taken a forefront and because of this unskilled people are put into very high roles. These are the people running projects and making decisions - which is very unfortunate since we don’t get paid to churn. The drop in price stock is a painful indicator of how poorly we execute. The only way to...

Advice to Management

What will it take for you to listen? You have mass groups of employees who are unhappy - yet you are not fostering change. People are jumping ship and more will do so in Q1. If you want to save the company the headache of taking 3 steps back I highly suggest you start paying attention immediately. Stop with the nepotism and start really looking at skill set and who is really DOING the work. Having a bunch of people who...

Pros

Compensation for your hard work

Cons

Hours can be inconsistent