It's a wonder this company stays in business. The President is a really good salesman that thinks he's a good president... He's not. At all. Do a search on recent lawsuits the company lost, or ask them about the office they rented next door at overwhelming expense only to renovate and abandon. Summit can't decided if it's growing or shrinking, and you'll never know either. It's all based on the bumbling President and his management training classes and nonsense. The loan officers run everything here. There's no business needs pushing the organization, it's the other way around. LO's do whatever they want. Do a search for the President on YouTube or elsewhere, and watch him bumble and try to be a "Mentor". It's hilarious.
This is a sales culture. There isn't a wall in the building that doesn't have some sales mantra on there or other nonsense about what we can do to make the company better... Like I could make 25 phone calls a day to customers that want a mortgage! Well, no, I really can't because that's not my job. No one at the main office does that. But it's really important that you understand that if you aren't selling things that benefit the company, they 100% do not care about you. (Until they were all torn down and thrown away, even the restrooms had these sales nonsense mission statements and graphs all over them. In the stalls. You cannot escape it.)
They will pay you the minimum you will accept. Promises will stack up from there, and if you are a truly stellar employee, you may get a 3% raise if they really pull strings.
The end result is that anyone with even the slightest amount of ambition is gone. Those that stay are mostly incompetent just doing the bare minimum to get a paycheck and leave. If you're good at what you do and enjoy accomplishment, you will suffer for it here. Everything is done as cheaply as possible. After talking to some of the upper management, I learned this is all pretty much by design.
I can't stress this enough: Every penny will be pinched here. If you need something to do while you find a better job, this will do. And you'll fit in well, since anyone smart that is still here is just searching for a way out. Meanwhile, the President and management will search out other companies that are "comparable" to Summit that operate on less people and use that as an excuse to hire less people when things are falling apart.
