Great Southern Bank Reviews

3.7

65% would recommend to a friend

(233 total reviews)
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Paul Lewis

78% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Great Southern Bank has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 233 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Great Southern 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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233 reviews
4.0
23 Apr 2022

Friendly but slow paced

Recommend
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Pros

Nice people that care about the mission

Cons

Not the most cutting edge

5.0
9 Nov 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Good exposure across various divisions - Strong team training and mentoring - Highly flexible working arrangements - Good employee benefits - Strong work being conducted on cultural improvements within the company

Cons

- Due to location and size of organisation advancement into higher positions is not extensive - Cost constrained culture due to COVID and general sector profitability - Technology offering constrained by regulatory requirements

1.0
28 Mar 2021

Look elsewhere! There are far better places to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

• Access to retail discounts via reward gateway (FYI - this is not unique to CUA) • Some nice people to work with who genuinely want to make a difference (although regularly prevented in doing so)

Cons

• Prepare to be overworked and underpaid! • Salaries are below market average • No bonus or recognition for high achievements • No annual bonus scheme. • No guaranteed pay increase scheme for employees on packaged contracts. • Company is always looking for the cheapest option in everything they do incl. systems, software, projects etc even if it’s not fit for purpose • Middle management (Incl Head Of’s & Snr Leaders) across most areas of the business are incompetent. Huge egos willing to throw anyone under the bus to save themselves. • C-suite / Executive team are out of touch with reality and working off their own personal agendas. • Allot of employees with long term tenure are resistant to change • Poor change management across the business incl poor communication. E.g - CUA have performed mass redundancies and the only people to know it’s happening are the people pulling the strings and the people directly impacted. • Lack of transparency, honesty and integrity. Allot of secretive BS occurs. E.g - I have seen highly qualified, experienced and suitable employees (incl managers) be made redundant, only for someone else to be brought in to perform the exact same role, under a slightly different name. Execs and middle management hiring their mates from other competing companies to surround themselves with yes-men. • The company are full of silos with little to no cross collaboration • Poorly managed and run enterprise projects. Project sponsorship is poor. • Lack of BPM maturity. • They like to use non documented rules/policies that negatively impact employees, to get away with as much as they can. So if you work your butt off and achieve some amazing things, above and beyond what is expected of you in your role, you won’t be recognised or compensated for it. • Lack of strategic direction. • Old and out of touch board members • Out of date systems and software. • Lack of career progression • No support for training and development. Everything has to be paid and arranged by you.

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