Wells Fargo reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(54,477 total reviews)
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Charlie Scharf

61% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Wells Fargo has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 54,477 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Wells Fargo employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Feb 9, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Free cab facility and good onshore partners.

Cons

Wells Fargo is an employer lacking ethics and strategy. I was a top performer for consecutive appraisal cycles. One fine day out of the blue with got to know in a call that our LOB is shutting down as Wells Fargo was pulling out of that business. Given the fact that I am among the top few, I had a false expectation that I am an asset to the company and most of us will be fitted to other requirements elsewhere in the company. But that never happened, a day after that call India management told us they are not sure what's gonna happen. On top of that there were no openings it seemed internally, so the only unsaid option we had was to move out. Now, most people in our team gradually did move out by getting jobs in other companies but there was zero support from management and HR to even try and get us an internal opening. In the mean time they were hiring new candidates from outside parallelly. Not a single question was answered and a template answer was always provided telling that there is a lack of clarity. When people were resigning, initially they didnt even ask the reason and the top performers were the first to get jobs outside but surprisingly they were asked to pay if they wanted to leave early, now the situation was either to stay without any assurity about your job, or pay some amount to get an early release so that you can join a new company, WOW! . Few people who did not end up getting jobs were ultimately handed pink slips by end of 2020 without one proper oppurtunity. Worst part was, after a month of all of us leaving, we get to see job openings being posted on Job portals and also getting mails from recruiters for requirements on the same skill set which we had. If as a top performer in a company I have to go through this that too during times of COVID then imaging the kind of ethics the management has who decide to let go of existing top perfoming employees and hire new people in a 2 hour interview on the same skill set. This clarity on the company's lack of ethics, empathy and common sense might help someone not to choose Wells Fargo as their employer.

1.0
Sep 3, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Easy entrance to the financial field, with the right sucking up one can get ahead if you have moral flexibility to swindle people. If you don't have education and don't thrive in a meritocracy it is a place where you can truly succeed and fly up the ranks. People can rise from entry level teller to management despite lack of management experience or economic knowledge. Very pro-minority as they value diversity over skill. This place will give you a thicker skin in sales, if you can sell online banking and debit cards to 90 year olds you're apt to succeed.

Cons

Unfair business practices, management suggesting immoral practices, poorly trained and educated staff, extreme pressure to put extreme pressure on customers despite their best interests, subpar products that one is expected to push, repeated unethical and questionable business practices, managers who are uneducated, and uninformed, lack of concern for the best interests of the customers or employees. They fail to prune out employees that have been popped for violating policy, and punish those that follow it. Employees are encouraged to endlessly harass customers into products they don't need. This company embodies the peter principal, and rewards their most morally deficient employees.

1.0
Jan 27, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They used to have the best salaries in the area. Some of the benefits are ok.

Cons

Wells Fargo is flailing trying to stay afloat. It is now trying everything it can to get rid of as many US employees in technology as possible and replace them with offshore employees at a fraction of the cost. The pandemic has only made this trend worse. The experiment started about 7 years ago. Two separate management chains, which only diverge about a level or two below the CEO. Offshore is completely unaccountable to anyone in the US, and their performance is abysmal. US employees take the blame for their mistakes and often have to work extra to fix them. Wells has always had a bad time managing underperforming employees. Employees who routinely do the jobs of 3 or more people are never promoted or given raises, while those who do nothing climb the ladder quickly. With offshore, that is magnified 10 times. Most offshore managers only care to increase their headcounts, with no regard for actual delivery of work. The project I work on has steadily collapsed under their weight, as every US employee who leaves is replaced by 3 offshore employees who do literally nothing, if you are lucky. I have "coworkers" who haven't made a single check-in in over 3 years. They are being promoted. What we are now seeing is most of the valuable US employees being given negative performance reviews, including those who have literally done the work of 7 people for more than 5 years. Management does not care. They have targets to meet, and they will meet them. It is abundantly clear the Wells Fargo is moving to a 100% offshore technology model at the expense of its US employees. We get no bonuses. We get no new hires. They get tons of bonuses for no work, and always seem to have new job reqs opening. It. Is. Hell. Here. I'm literally just waiting until they lay me off so I can get a severance package. I hate every second of this place and cannot wait to leave.

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