Mission Better banking that helps people live better lives.
The Way We Work
Working Harder And Smarter: We work together, we dig deeper, ask better questions and learn more. Everything we do is about helping customers succeed.
Life-Long Relationships: We build relationships — with families, companies, communities and associates — that last for decades.
Uncompromising Integrity: A family-controlled bank, we know there’s a wrong way and right way to do banking. And we choose the right way.
Description More than 125 years. Over 10,000 people strong.
While we began as a small-town bank with a single branch, today’s First Citizens has more than 550 branches from coast to coast. We are the largest family-controlled banks in the United States. And we’ve been led for three generations by the family of our CEO and Chairman, Frank B. Holding, Jr.
• Founded in 1898 as the Bank of Smithfield (North Carolina)
• Incorporated in 1929 as First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company by R.P. Holding
• Headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina
• Total assets of more than $200 billion
• More than 10,000 associates
• Subsidiary of First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (Nasdaq: FCNCA)
Add it all up and you have a bank like no other: We combine the resources and capabilities of a national bank with the values that come from starting out as a community bank. This heritage gives us a special understanding of the choices customers face when it comes to the money they earn, save and invest – and our ability to help them choose well.
Forever First is our commitment to the people, businesses and communities who rely on us to be the best we can be. Each and every day, we work and collaborate to make a difference for our customers and our communities.
First Citizens Bank has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,356 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The First Citizens Bank employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 65% of employees would recommend working at First Citizens Bank to a friend. This is based on 1,360 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
65% of job seekers rate their interview experience at First Citizens Bank as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at First Citizens Bank.