Description FirstMerit Corporation is the holding company for FirstMerit Bank, which provides retail and commercial banking services through more than 150 branches in Ohio and western Pennsylvania, and about another 50 in the Chicago area. Serving local consumers and small to midsized businesses, the bank provides standard services such as deposit accounts, credit and debit cards, and loans. The bank and its subsidiaries also offer wealth management, securities brokerage, equipment lease financing, insurance, and trust services. FirstMerit entered the Chicago market in early 2010 by buying some two dozen branches there from First Banks. It had already acquired most of that company's asset-based lending portfolio.
FirstMerit has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 123 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The FirstMerit employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).
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Overall, 40% of employees would recommend working at FirstMerit to a friend. This is based on 123 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
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