First Merchants IT Department Employee Reviews

It was a great decision to move to First Merchants and only look forward to continuing to be here to grow and provide the best support possible in my roles.

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My experience has been overall positive.

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Changes are a constant in this company. Trying to get better at who works best together. How they can meet the goals they have set for the company.

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With better management, this could be a great company but EMT and the Board of Directors seem unable to properly do their part.

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No company is perfect, and FMB is no exception. However, they try. The leaders are open and are willing to accept blame for missed opportunities instead of passing it off on someone else.

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Listen to feedback and motivatation to do our best every day.

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What I like best about is our leadership seems to listen to feedback and take action on it.

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They care about the work environment and each individual.

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They share their insights on the market and relate it back to how it impacts our company and our teams.

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The transparency they provide and drive for integrity and honesty. Being able to bring yourself to work.

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Better execution of projects, better alignment of performance with pay

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Communication from the top down is lacking. It seems to have gotten better over the last year, however the communication that trickles down or is told straight to us from the exec team is a bit out of touch with reality regarding pay structure and wanting us to work more with less employees.

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The leadership team is getting better at setting goals, but they are still unclear and vague how the company is supposed to focus to achieve them - lots up for interpretation. Also, they need to be more relatable.

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The constant re-orgs are doing nothing other than making employees feel unstable and insecure. We have executives and management making decisions on things that they are so far from having a good understanding on. Im concerned we are going to continue losing good, taleneted people in the tech space.

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We have lost a lot of people due to severely low pay in comparison to market rates. Talent cannot justify staying at a company that underpays them even for the area and the industry. A small amount of movement seems to be happening, but this is many months after upper management was told of this.

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The initial pay rate that was offered for the position.

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The compensation package is not great, but it's adequate.

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I honestly don't know how to answer this question.

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It's a fair compensation package, but nothing really spectacular. There isn't any "Best" item.

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401K and ESPP. It's also nice having sick days in addition to vacation v.s. just PTO.

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Upper management in my area does not appreciate the work my team and I do, our pay hasn't even kept up with inflation let alone incentivized excellence.

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Compensation should be better aligned with industry standards for the position.

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make the raises match the annual review scores

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Working hard and getting more than normal work done doesn't mean you exceed expections. Yearly reviews, always makes you a Solid Performer and when asking management about how to exceed expections it's too far of a reach. Feeling undervalued and never reaching that goal.

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I make 20k less than median for my job title

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Small, aligned, supportive, and driven.

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The organization hires top-notch talent and our team is full of top-performers. We all work well together and are willing to help each other out as needed.

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We all work well together toward our goals.

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Friendly, helpful, smart, great to work with

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The teamwork that we work together to complete the work

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Better communication, collaboration, grit, experience, shared responsibility, less organizational changes we move teams together then apart before teams can adjust or develop

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Less politics and interpersonal drama

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There are some very bright and driven people here, but many are not motivated and morale is fairly low across the teams I interact with.

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need to improve at performing day to day assigned duties; better cooperation when working with other teams; asking questions and communicating rather than trying to boss our team around or do things in an outdated way

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Do their job and not push duties off to other teams (work has been coming from other teams to mine for no clear reasons)

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The people and connections created with team members in person and remote.

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The culture and environment are genuine. The company wants to allow each of us to bring our unique talents and abilities and use them to build our team strength.

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No one is perfect, work to the best of your ability and keep learning.

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Great coworkers. The issue here is the management at the top. The people I work with are great.

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Our executives continually state that we should bring "our genuine self" to work, and they truly mean it. There are opportunities to be geniune with how I feel about the direction of the business and the direction of the team without being worried about repercussions.

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Leadership and processes are too stuck in an antiquated way of thinking. We need to be more innovative and forward-focused. Our processes and employee tools / resources are very outdated.

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Less work and more pay.

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better pay, more remote work opportunities, better PTO, better healthcare benefits, individual employees doing their job duties instead of pushing their work on other teams

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I really don't care since I am moving on.

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Feedback and supporting my manager and teammates.

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I love what I do, the fact that I feel I have a place on the team and within the company, and I love the people that I get to work with.

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Getting the job done without any major issues.

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I love the job that I do and the people I do it with on a daily basis.

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To make a difference and add positive value for the company.

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Lack of incentive to excel. Poor performance at the top levels is accepted and great performance is not rewarded. Why even try?

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Too many projects/task and not enough employees to get the work done. Teams are working 50-60 hours a week. EMT wants changes without requirements documented, process reviews or discussions with SMEs to discuss possible solutions. Too many meetings. Unhappy employees stressing over the workload.

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I don't particularly enjoy the work I'm being asked to do (not in alignment with my skillset)

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Being a member of the community: First Merchants is perceived as just a small local bank, which can be good in some ways, but that image could hold us back. I personally feel that we aren't growing as fast as we should be, and if you aren't growing, you're dying .

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The high paced enviro prides workers on being flexible and on their ability to multitask. We forget this can produce terrible products and resentment towards mgmt. Corp America telling us we should love our jobs is a clever way of disguising burn out and normalizing being overworked and underpaid.

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