Pros
I worked at Educators for almost 10 years and it was a great place to work. If you’re a dedicated individual there is a lot of opportunity to move up. In branch management varied from branch to branch, every branch had their own way of doing things. Some branches have great managers and some had bad managers. If you’re lucky enough to work at a branch with a great team you’ll have a great experience. There are no real incentives or goals that employees have so the good employees are genuinely good and genuinely there to help people. Employees get a generous bonus at the end of the year that makes up for the low pay compared to other credit unions and banks.
Cons
There is a lot of bias at Educators. It’s a Racine based credit union so the branches outside of Racine are not really appreciated. Because of that it’s normal for good employees to go unappreciated. During my time there I’ve seen terrible employees keep their job while good employees lost them. Educators is unfortunately a company that will give bad employees many opportunities to get it right, but will fire good employees for making one mistake. Another con is the pay, generally branch employees are greatly underpaid compared to other financials/ credit unions. They make up for it a bit with a generous bonus at the end of the year but are way behind in wages / benefits. The work life balance of a full time in branch employee is pretty. You give this company all your time for very little reward. You can be a teller/lender working 6 days a week and watch your managers take vacations every other week. It can get very discouraging very fast. Managers depending on which branch you work do not lead by example and will usually not jump in the fire with their employees. I was fortunate to have an assistant manager who went through it all with her employees but that was not the case with all managers.