Banco Itaú Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Banco Itaú as an intern

Pros – Team work, work, location and learning

Cons – Little opportunity to be promoted.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Banco Itaú full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Has plenty of money to throw around

Cons – Years behind the culture of developed countires

Advice to Senior Management – Really get to know international environmnet

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Banco Itaú full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good salary
Enough benefits
Good workplace
Nice coworkers
Proper training
I enjoyed work in Itau while the company was on its own, after the merge with Unibanco things got strange.

Cons – Too much politics
No right direction
Hard work doesn't mean recognition, politics yes.
The company went from a doer company to a show off company. No one cares if you deliver or not, only if you sell properly to your bosses and to the board.

Advice to Senior Management – You are loosing all the good workers, change directions soon... otherwise you will maintain only the lame workers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Banco Itaú

Pros – big bank, with a lot of people working there

Cons – difficult to get higher positions

Current Employee – been working at Banco Itaú full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – You can experience many situations and construct a large and diversified experience and relationships. A great field of Opportunities. They invest a lot on training people. You can study until you want with the support of the company.

Cons – The worst thing in the company is the fusion with Unibanco. People that came from Unibanco are not prepared enough to deal with people from Former Itaú, neither with the rising challenges that this company continue facing.

Advice to Senior Management – Look better to the high managers actions. They are pressuring more and more their teams and leaving no space for those who would grow and get better results for the company. The experienced employees are extremely necessary to train and prepare the young ones.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Banco Itaú full-time for more than a year

Pros – Management structure, capital strength, established company in its field, technology support, infrastructure resources, self development resources, strategy aligned to sustainability.

Cons – Its size favors a human resources mechanical management. Health care is pretty limited (not so good in quality terms), more when compared to co-participation.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Banco Itaú full-time

Pros – Young team with great proactivity and commitment.

Cons – Lot's of ego's and competition to manage.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Banco Itaú full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Lot of areas and opportunities.
LaTam Leader in Financial services e banking
Good name in the market

Cons – Burocracy and politics
Need to develop meritocracy
Must to work to keep talents

Advice to Senior Management – Try to innovate and find incentives to keep talents

Current Employee – been working at Banco Itaú

Pros – Big company, great compensations, pays all of the extra hours of work, a big variety of opportunities, leader of the industry in Brazil, expanding to Latin America, always breaking profiting records.

Cons – Downsizing its structure besides record profits, pressure for 150% of the goals, big quantity of tasks to do in daily routine with short schedules.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more communicative about the chances the bank is passing thru, give more support and training to the employees before they start.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Banco Itaú

Pros – Is one of the largest bank in Brazil. Many opportunities inside there, diversity and a funny place!

Cons – Lots of bureaucracy and it's rare to be recognized for you job. Salaries are not good.

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize your employees and make them more proud of being part of this organization.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend