Silicon Valley Bank reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(1,424 total reviews)
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Marc Cadieux

81% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Silicon Valley Bank has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,424 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Silicon Valley Bank employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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5.0
Oct 19, 2025
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Pros

Work with some really cool clients doing some pretty cool things. Colleagues at the bank were great too.

Cons

Lots of SVB's culture is starting to degrade with the First Citizen's acquisition. Feels like "big bank" culture

1.0
Feb 27, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Progressive Company, profitable, customer and client-focused

Cons

Recent Addition of Chief Product Officer and his management team behave unprofessionally (profanity in meetings; berating employees, etc.)

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Silicon Valley Bank Response
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Thank you for sharing your candid feedback. As a long-term employee, you’re aware that SVB’s Values drive what we do and how we do it. We take feedback of unprofessional behavior very seriously. We will share this feedback with HR and the right teams internally.
2.0
Mar 30, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

* Almost ideal for buttkissers without talent, self-respect, or a life outside work. * Almost ideal for workaholics who just want endless problems to work at that you can never fully solve because that would slow their rise in the management ranks. * Almost ideal for those who just want max salary and don't care about any other factor, including self-respect and a life outside work. * Some very talented tech practitioners who want to make a difference, though they are constantly cut off at the knees.

Cons

* Management that gives lipservice to caring about people but cares only about itself and who they can use to rise to the next job level. * Constant churn of technologies done poorly so the latest manager can force through the illusion of improvement to gain their next promotion before the real costs become too obvious to ignore. * Management that gives lipservice to best practices, but demonstrates a consistent willingness to cut corners and bypass safeguards to claim their next promotion, leaving the consequences to those left behind.

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