Yorkshire Building Society Reviews
Updated May 9, 2022
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Mike Regnier
108 Ratings
Pros
"Family oriented great culture good work life balance" (in 20 reviews)
"flexible working, company that understands your needs, great place to work" (in 18 reviews)
Cons
"compared to other building societies/ banks, you will get paid a lot less at ybs" (in 8 reviews)
"Career progression and scope for promotion" (in 7 reviews)
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- Current Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★Featured Review
Pros
Amazing people, great benefits and wonderful values
Cons
Head office in Bradford but now remote working on offer great opportunities
- Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
its been really well so far. Everybody wants everybody to win. Good encouragement and continue to provide support so that you do better at your job. Quite a friendly environment, free parking coffees. loving the culture and the environment
Cons
none so far. still new so will see
- Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Since joining last year, I can honestly say I have enjoyed every moment. YBS is a great organisation to be part of, great culture people and challenges to get stuck in to. I felt part of the team and wider business immediately which was a great feeling
Cons
None that i can think off at this juncture
- Current Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Pros
Flexible, friendly, great team ethic.
Cons
Sometimes the pay is not as good as other financial providers but there are other benefits.
Continue reading - Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
The people and the culture at YBS have exceeded all expectations. The work/life balance make it an amazing company to work for, and highlights how a working environment should look and feel. I've never felt a stronger sense of teamwork, both within my department, but equally cross-functionally...I should have made the move years ago!!
Cons
Its tough to identify negative elements, and I feel that the Covid/working remotely situation probably exacerbate the efficiency of IT/system issues or access
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great colleagues, benefits & work life balance
Cons
Not applicable for this review
Continue reading - Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Very people focused and they do try and put their people first
Cons
Very risk adverse, very hard to change anything. IT not respected in the business. Will take a lot to change the mindset of do minimum now.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
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Great people, lots of variety, flexible working.
Cons
Losing some of the longer term benefits, and can be frustrating getting things done due to red tape.i
- Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
YBS is following the best agile practices in Software Industry to complete deliverables. Employees can maintain their work- life balance due to well planed and established agile practices.
Cons
If you enjoy busy and crowded office environment as a software Engineer YBS not that type of environment.
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Brilliant branch manager who was supportive (I know this depends on your branch/area) Fabulous work colleagues Small branch team which made work happy
Cons
Constantly asking and working towards career progression but no support or development The bigger company/head office don't care about branch teams Selling off branches into agencies without any care for the staff No help in relocating when branch closures came around
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Yorkshire Building Society has an overall rating of 4.0 out of 5, based on over 279 reviews left anonymously by employees. 81% of employees would recommend working at Yorkshire Building Society to a friend and 74% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has improved by 2% over the last 12 months.
81% of Yorkshire Building Society employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Yorkshire Building Society 4.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.1 for culture and values and 3.4 for career opportunities.
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