Bank of Ireland Reviews

Pros

Flexible working / work from home Good pension Staff discounts Free banking Paid further education Death in service payment Marriage leave Parental leave Paternity leave Career breaks Condensed hours option Free employee assistance programme

Cons

Working multiple roles for same salary Acting roles without financial compensation

Pros

- Real accountability for end to end product lifecycle - Clear strategic direction and achievable goals - Trust from management to do the job autonomously - Close knit team from senior management to colleagues real sense that we 'had each others backs' - Hard working environment and stressful at times (like any product role), but always a good humored office - Ultra professional with compliance and control risk the number one priority - Treated like an adult - No micro management - Expected to know and do your job, take responsibility and be accountable when things went well and not as expected

Cons

- It took me a few months to realize that having a network of close contacts throughout the organization is critical to getting things done. Without that network, I wouldn't have been able to do my job effectively

Pros

Has great years when I started 20 years ago. Great culture. Customer centric but all that changed with changing management over the years.

Cons

No longer care about customers. It’s all about bottom line. No interest in their staffs wellbeing. Nomore opportunities to progress. Everything outsourced to call centres.

Pros

WFH adds more pressure, as managers are expectimg staff to deliver more and more. We found ourselves working with no breaks sometimes more than 12 hours a day

Cons

Management do not think about their staffs

Pros

Good salary, good colleagues, good support system

Cons

Slow to change. Peculiar senior appointments

Pros

Mon- Fri hours Steady if boring job

Cons

Ridiculous band structure designed to keep everyone working for as little as possible No opportunity to progress within your own department No incentive for top performers Pay below market value and seem very disinclined to do anything about employees leaving

Pros

Would not recommend a single thing

Cons

Openly told by higher management that there is no room to progress. Undertone of sexism motor finance department, often referred to as “good girl”. Often bypassed by reps and asked to speak to our male counter parts. In my years there, I seen various young men climb to the role of team lead not because of any accomplishment, rather they were used to keep an eye and catch out other staff members. Valuable trained staff being forced to leave the BIF team as they were bypassed for a pay rise which was given to one of the younger less experienced men. Ceiling beams coming away in their cabinteely ops centre. Quite often there were problems with the plumbing and the smell of sewage from the bathrooms was unacceptable. When deciding who from the agency staff would be offered a Boi contract, this was decided by choosing a name out of a hat. Constant complaints from car dealerships as service was getting worse, due to cost cutting in the motor finance e team, staff members who left we’re not being replaced, putting everyone under extra pressure whilst still being paid far less than our peers in other finance institutions.