Santander reviews

If you only read this first line - don't even contemplate working here. It will drive you to depression and hating your life, it really is that bad. The main issue is that the company is full of dead wood and dinosaurs. The business model was to take over lots of different banks and merge them to the San brand. This has left an incredible amount of incompetent people within the company, often in senior positions. I see the issue...it would cost a lot of money to make these people redundant, but it is what would be required to properly move forward. HR are a complete waste of space, the pay is relatively poor and the employee perks are essentially non-existent. You don't even get free hot drinks, and they seemed so proud when they stopped charging for hot water...! Oh, but then there are no fridges or milk so this is rendered fairly useless anyway. The graduate scheme isn't that at all - using the word "scheme" is a complete disgrace. No training, awful work and no career prospects or guidance. I cannot stress enough how choosing Santander as a graduate option is pretty much career suicide before you've even got going. If you do work there as a grad, get out as soon as you can - start applying elsewhere from day 1. I could go on but I've wasted enough of my life with this place - it really was the worst time of my life, and I'm certainly not alone in thinking this. I just hope this will persuade anyone thinking of getting a job here not to!

- There were times I was not able to have LUNCH BREAK (which is against the law btw) because the turnover rate in my district was HORRIBLE. Even though they have "float staff" that go around helping branches, NO ONE came to help. I had to contact HR in order to FINALLY have the float manager send someone to my branch so I could take a break after having told him I needed someone! - When I worked under short-staffed conditions and had to maintain the teller line all by myself with no break when the manager was on PTO (I was second in command so when the manager is on PTO, I'm the manager), I got sick and had to call out the next day. The District Executive ended up reprimanding me for calling out! MAYBE if you cared about your employees and send adequate help, I wouldn't have gotten sick from being overworked and NOT GETTING A LUNCH BREAK! - If you run out of Paid Time Off (PTO), you cannot even call out sick. Having to call out sick should not be something that can be held against an employee. Especially if you have a doctors note. - The medical benefits are a joke. - The way HR handles severe situations is a joke, they only care about covering the company. -My pay for all the work I did was 100% not enough. I was GROSSLY underpaid! -NO work-life balance. NONE.