Hard to advance - Anonymous employee CIBC Employee Review

3.0
Sep 29, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great pay, benefits, hours (after you gain seniority). Great work environment in terms of coworkers

Cons

Difficult to advance-management will often hold you back in favour of those they like more. Many internal job postings will state that there is already a preferred candidate that they have in mind for the role but you are still free to apply if you like (aka we already know who we are going to hire so you are better off not applying at al)

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