Scotiabank reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(11,087 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 11,087 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
Dec 31, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good workplace to work at

Cons

Upper management is not really caring

1.0
Dec 31, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You can work with smart individual contributors. Some teams genuinely try to build good products, but they are held back by leadership issues and lack of clear direction.

Cons

The environment feels highly political, where decisions are driven more by internal positioning than by what is best for customers or the product. Leadership often feels disconnected from modern technology and design fundamentals, with limited understanding of basics like responsive design, quality craft, and what good execution looks like. Communication can feel dismissive and dehumanizing, and there is resistance to meaningful inclusion and diversity in practice. Collaboration suffers because cross functional teams lack aligned processes, and design to development handoffs are poorly defined, which leads to friction, rework, and frustration.

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