Scotiabank reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(11,098 total reviews)
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Scott Thomson

74% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Scotiabank has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 11,098 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Scotiabank employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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11K reviews
4.0
Jun 18, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- soft tickets, lots of free time to do courses - good managers, they listen and advice to you on career choices - No blame culture, retrosprective meetings with lots of chances to speak up your concerns - good salary, over the average in Colombia - writing this review during worktime.

Cons

- They have lots of automation tools, but still story mapping and requirements process are VERY POOR, building new features is a pain, BAs are not fully aware of their duties so you have to define features in the middle of a sprint. Could be just my project tho, but still bad. - There's no motivation for going extra mile, managers prefer that you complete tickets before deadline and no more, also very tricky to finish on time poorly defined features you never now when you are really done. - I am in a project with react front-end that is like the old west, everyone shoots on sight and we have similar modules with very different implementations for the same things so feels like there's no standard at all. - The poor analysis also derives in a poor assignment of tickets when several people end up working in the same feature. - Before start coding you have to ask several questions for tickets because there are no detail at all, and BAs just share links to another tickets instead of provide the info and thats for bug-tickets, for features it's even worse.

3.0
Apr 26, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The benefits are good as an entry level position and the pay is okay (especially if you make bonus)

Cons

Everyone says they want to support/help you, but in reality they’re likely talking behind your back about how incompetent you are. The job itself is stressful and you deal with a lot of abusive customers. There’s high expectation to do extremely well, you’re surveys need to be 9s or 10s otherwise you’ll likely be scolded by your manager. I feel sick from anxiety on a daily basis from this job, but likely I’m just not a good fit for it. Good starting position for business/economic students maybe, or those looking to work in finance, but wouldnt recommend this job in the long term to anyone else. Oh, also very nitpicky about adherence; I got scolded for taking time to send of emails on behalf of customers because we should be writing them while we’re on the phones with customers and then instantly going to the next call (?) yeah, no. Also a lot of information to take in at once if you’re not familiar with finances, and can be difficult to keep up with updates. Systems are usually broken, and communication is garbage between employees, management, branch employees and customers. Very frustrating/anxiety inducing environment to work in.

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