Commerce Bank Reviews

3.8

64% would recommend to a friend

(1,069 total reviews)
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John W Kemper

86% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Commerce Bank has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,069 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Commerce Bank employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
2.0
29 Jun 2017

Hit Or Miss

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I got to work with some really great people in other departments. The location of the office was nice and centrally located. Work life balance is good and easy going. Also, banker holidays are a nice perk.

Cons

There is not a lot of career advancement opportunities so don't expect anything fast. There are a lot of people who have been there for 10, 20+ years and are just trying to coast to retirement so that does not help. Also the management leaves a lot to be desired and the corporate culture is somewhat toxic with a lot of favoritism and a lot of shunning of new ideas. The company just keeps adding more layers of management that makes it more difficult to get things done. Management in my department was really disorganized and generally not approachable.

4.0
14 Oct 2014
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Pros

Commerce is a very stable bank to work for. Upper management is very friendly and not too intimidating. Co-workers were like family and I miss them dearly. I was paid well for the type of work and quantity of work done. There are certainly worse places to work, and not everyone there experiences the same treatment. Good departments exist. I just wasn't in one of them.

Cons

Commerce is terrible about promoting from within and/or certain departments. Middle management is clique-ish. If you are not a part of the club, you're nobody. One department is very clearly "reverse sexist" as they would not restore a male employee to his former position when there was reorganization. -Not me. He left that area. I was never promoted and only two people in my department were in the 10 years I was there. Mistakes made years in the past are never forgiven despite current good reviews. Finally, they are INCREDIBLY stingy on raises. Employees with "Excellent" reviews do not even break 1.5%. I left for that reason and in my new job I have already been given two raises in the last 18 months. The total of the raises would have been equivalent to about 4 years review cycles for an "Average to Excellent" employee.

1.0
26 Mar 2024
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Pros

Easy work, friendly coworkers, vacation time, parties

Cons

Horrible Management especially Supervisors, favoritism, unfairness, PTO hard to request, work dramas, too much gossip, and endless stress. Zero respect for hard working employees.

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