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

Advice to Management

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

Pros

Culture, home verses work life balance

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

Compensation for your hard work

Pros

Great benefits
Excellent position in the market
Very high standards for peers in IT delivery

Advice to Management

At SVB, you will work with some of the best folks in the field. The people that do the work, the deliverers, hold themselves to high standards and bring in the best people if they have a say in it. You will work a lot, you will learn a lot and you will make some longtime friends. SVB comradery is what you make it. Make no mistake, contrary to previous reviews, the deliverers were always there, working behind the scenes to make sure that despite all the flaws and fumbles in leadership the company can still do business.

I left SVB at a time when IT effectiveness and morale was at an all-time low. Fantastic leadership and delivery resources were leaving in waves, sometimes in the double digits a week. Since then, SVB executive leadership saw the problem in management and removed it, only to replace them with the easy options.

The C level in IT is lead by people brought in to do tasks and projects that failed, full stop. Nepotism is still rampant, as the senior and mid-level management was filled with their favorites, people who are not right for the job, have no success in actual delivery, are bad leaders and foster no good will with their departments. It is still a culture of fear, but with the only silver lining that those bullies are not in Tempe, where the majority of IT now resides.

Until the right leaders are chosen for these key roles I fear things will not change. SVB executives have started an initiative to listen to their employees again, build the culture back up and improve satisfaction. I beg them to follow through, take a hard look at the IT organization and make some tough choices, for the sake of the friends and family I made when I was there.

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

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 are good at hiding the truth and managing up will not help you succeed!

Pros

Genuinely positive work culture with lots of interesting people. Good work/life balance.

Pros

Provides personal input and boosts personal creativity

Pros

I am no longer there and don't have to endure the abhorrent culture/lack of culture in the technology organization.

Advice to Management

Wake up and understand how running an organization with a total lack of internal focus on modern technology & engineering will impact your position in the market dealing with cutting edge technology clients.

Pros

Some of the old supportive culture survives in pockets

Advice to Management

Wake up. The organization will fall apart and IT WILL BE YOUR FAULT

Pros

very interesting business model and learn a lot of new stuff.