RBC reviews

- Very hierarchical team structure - Team is full of ex-consultants from BCG, Deloitte, etc. and they bring that culture with them - Opinions don't feel valued if you are below director level - Get cut out of, or am not even told about, some major meetings with stakeholders until after the meetings are done since they were "director and above" meetings. Doesn't make sense because it's a remote meeting anyway, and the time spent needing to translate what happened so I can get my work done is like playing broken telephone

There is a self-congratulatory culture inside Canada's largest bank, repeating statements about the bank's superiority over its competitors while the employee experience is poor. Moreover, RBC is one of the world's top bankers to the fossil fuel industry, pouring billions into oil, gas, and mining every year and violating Indigenous rights. Managers are often insecure, confused and left without proper support. They then leave their reports without support. There is a culture of secrecy, compensation for full-time employees is below the industry average, and bonuses left unpaid for any reason while the bank rakes in billions in profit every quarter. Annual reviews at RBC work like the comments section on a media site: there are often no meaningful touchpoints through the year, but at the end of the year other employees (and sometimes your manager, too, without disclosure) leave anonymous comments on your performance. This has led to a culture of malicious competition among employees, the opposite of "Radical Candor" which it's been advertised as.