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Working at Downey Savings & Loan in Newport Beach, CA: 24 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Newport Beach, CA Area

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On average, employees in Newport Beach, CA at Downey Savings & Loan give their company a 1.6 rating out of 5.0 based on 24, whereas overall Average Rating of Downey Savings & Loan is 4.4 out of 5.0 based on 52 Downey Savings & Loan Review Ratings. The happiest Downey Savings & Loan employees in Newport Beach, CA are Accounting Specialists submitting an average rating of 5.0 and Director of Marketings with a rating of 4.5.

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4.4
Average Rating
(based on 17 Downey Savings & Loan Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
4.3
Growth Opportunities
4.1
People You Work With
4.6
Person You Work For
4.3
Rewards You Receive
4.4
Support You Get
4.4
Way You Work
4.7
Work Setting
4.6
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Working at Downey Savings & Loan in Newport Beach, CA: 24 Employee Reviews

Corporate Recruiter
in Newport Beach, CA

"Working without direction or guidence for the first two years."

What do you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"I liked being able to work on the assignments that I liked. I could prioritize based on my clients needs."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Watch out! This is a very critical invironment. The products that they have chosen to sell are bringing the company down. Everyone is looking for a fall guy. Be very careful!"

What don't you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"The company culture was very critical as much blame could be placed due to the managers lack of performance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Back your employees. Empower them to make decisions at the lowest level in order to acheive customer satisfaction."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Accounting Specialist
in Newport Beach, CA

"Solid accounting background. critical thinking skills, Dedicated team player"

What do you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"nice working environment. Had lot of new thing to learn."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"No. I don't have any tips for othes interviewing with this company because this company was took over by another bank."

What don't you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"I was enjoy my work a lot, therefore have nothing I don't like."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I did not have much big suggestions on the management part."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Financial Analyst
in Newport Beach, CA
Person You Work For 4.9 / 5 People You Work With 4.7 / 5 Work Setting 4.8 / 5
Support You Get 4.8 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.9 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4.1 / 5 Way You Work 4.7 / 5
Director of Marketing
in Newport Beach, CA
Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.6 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4.8 / 5 Way You Work 4.5 / 5
Secretary
in Newport Beach, CA
Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Director of Application Development
in Newport Beach, CA
Person You Work For 3.9 / 5 People You Work With 3.9 / 5 Work Setting 3.9 / 5
Support You Get 3.9 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Curriculum Designer
in Newport Beach, CA
Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Programmer Analyst
in Newport Beach, CA
Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4.9 / 5 Work Setting 3.6 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.9 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.8 / 5
Accountant
in Newport Beach, CA
Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4.9 / 5
Support You Get 4.6 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.9 / 5
Company Culture 4.1 / 5 Way You Work 4.5 / 5
Systems Support Analyst
in Newport Beach, CA

"Good tool analyst your expectation"

What do you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"Just the people and friends I made over the past 3 years I have been there."

What don't you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"Not having the apportunity to grow more."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need more work due the change management so often."

Product Manager
in Newport Beach, CA

"Due to more management in loans, Downey Savings no longer exists."

What do you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"My co-workers and family like atmosphere was what made me continue to wrok at Downey Savings."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Company no longer exists."

What don't you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"The poor decisions made by senior and executive management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do what's morally right not what the other companies are doing. We made loans as they should have and then jumped on the bandwagon to stop looking if the customer could really afford it. That's what brought Downey down."

Project Manager
in Newport Beach, CA

"This was a great place to work."

What do you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"The team environment and the challenges."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be honest and dress sharp. Listen to the client's needs."

What don't you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"That they canceled the project."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Let me manage the project and I'll cut the costs in half."

Systems Analyst
in Newport Beach, CA

"Excellent employer and environment conducive for advancement"

What do you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"The people I worked with, cared about what they did and worked hard to make client happy."

What don't you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"Nothing, except they are no longer in existance."

Senior Software Engineer
in Newport Beach, CA

"They were an excellent IT shop to work for. Unfortunately, they went out of business."

What do you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"They had an excellent software development process, very competent IT management, and very talented developers and business analysts"

What don't you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"They were moving the bulk of their applications away from the .NET platform toward the Java platform."

Lead QA Analyst
in Newport Beach, CA

What do you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"The employees were wonderful. We worked well together."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The company failed, therefore their is no company to interview with."

What don't you like about working at Downey Savings & Loan?

"The upper management wanted to make money giving out ARM loans, which caused the bank to fail."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They should have remained conservative like they were when I was hired."

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