Silicon Valley Bank Reviews
Updated May 14, 2022
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Top Review Highlights by Sentiment
- "SVB has a great culture and stands behind their employees with the exception of their new CIO Beth Devin." (in 88 reviews)
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- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Love the culture and benefits. I don’t feel like just a number here.
Cons
Pay is not great comparatively and very understaffed
- Current Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Pros
*work life/balance *flexibility *amazing benefits *great peers and leadership *interesting and engaging role *the best clients *employee stock purchase of plan is phenomenal *very generous bonuses *maternity leave and other swanky benefits.
Cons
There is no formalized training program. This adds more responsibility to the existing team to train.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Talented people with entrepreneurial spirit. Very collaborative environment.
Cons
No cons I enjoy working for SVB
Continue reading - Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Great people, culture, and management. Overall awesome company.
Cons
Salaries could be a little higher
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Benefits, culture, technology are all amazing
Cons
None to share at this time
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Company culture is excellent compared to the rest of the industry.
Cons
Work/life balance is not even across teams
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
ability to work from home most of the time (for now)
Cons
incompetent executives who have to justify their existence by moving departments around for the fun of it.
- Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
I love it my manager is dope
Cons
Sometimes people get angry at me
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Positive work culture focused on development and personal career growth.
Cons
Occasionally slow to invest in new tech/resources
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Good hours, great people, and cool clients
Cons
Average or below average pay for industry
Silicon Valley Bank Reviews FAQs
Silicon Valley Bank has an overall rating of 4.2 out of 5, based on over 812 reviews left anonymously by employees. 86% of employees would recommend working at Silicon Valley Bank to a friend and 90% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.
86% of Silicon Valley Bank employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Silicon Valley Bank 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.5 for culture and values and 3.9 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Silicon Valley Bank to be benefits, culture, coworkers and the cons to be career development, senior leadership, management.
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