Worst Employment Experience - Managing Director Sterling Bancorp Employee Review

Competitive salary and kind people

They didn't have room to grow

Average salary. Will pay for certifications and schooling. Average bonus program. Fast growing company. If you’re a workaholic who never leaves the office, this is the perfect place for you.

Very disorganized post-Astoria merger. Blatantly obvious they were unprepared for systems merger. From an internal view the bank appears to be growing too quickly and thus does not have a good “handle” on day-to-day operations due to operating in a constant state of flux. They appear to put bandaids on problems instead of fixing them outright, regardless of how simple or complicated. They refused to adopt any Astoria system, which in hindsight were (for the most part) much more user-friendly, efficient, and accurate. They preach a “work-life balance” but then turn around and expect un-compensated overtime. They don’t hide this, their motto is essentially “do more with less”. They preach lean-six-sigma (efficiency model) but do not adhere to that mantra except for cutting staff and piling work on the remaining colleagues. They care more about “special projects” then normal job functions, and consider a “successful” project as one that is completed/implemented, regardless of whether it actually works or not which more often than not, it doesn’t. Dont expect to promote here unless you dedicate your life to them. Lastly, their customer data is a disaster after numerous rapid mergers/acquisitions.