Think twice before joining - Anonymous employee BNP Paribas Employee Review

1.0
15 Mar 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

above industry average vacation days ~30 days per year, but no personal days and no sick days

Cons

Everything else you can think of: - Stubborn and incompetent Senior Management - The bank is constantly doing org change, nearshoring, offshoring initiatives to save cost. If you have team members leaving, they will not replace the HC and the rest of the team end up doing more work each person - which results in more people leaving - People care here is a joke. The coronavirus is getting serious and heard that the bank still has not announced mandatory WFH policy for non-essential employees. If any, they just figured out a rotational schedule for teams to go into the office on a day ago - 5 steps BEHIND any other banks in NYC! - Diversity does not exist here: you look at the MD/D level and above, most Management in this company is French, except the few who need to face American clients or regulators. Most senior leaders at the bank have been here forever (likely their first job out of college) and have absolutely no idea about the outside world, trends, best practices and are so stubborn to take in any different ideas - No career growth opportunity above associate / vp level: Little to no salary increase after promotion (0-5K) & way slower than industry average promotion cycle - HR and Marketing like to do cosmetic work such as different culture events, talks but nothing material has changed - Significantly behind in IT infra and applications..many are from the last century and will never get upgraded because the goal is to move to a new platform (been talking about this for 5+ years...)

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Cons

I rarely leave reviews, but future job seekers deserve fair warning. From day one, it was clear that micromanagement was a core operating principle here; not a quirk, but a feature. Managers routinely hovered over routine tasks, demanded pointless status updates multiple times a day, constantly changed directives, took credit for my work, and treated experienced professionals like they couldn't be trusted to send an email unsupervised. Any sense of autonomy was purely cosmetic. The culture was equally poisonous. Gossip wasn't background noise; it was practically a department function. Colleagues regularly spoke poorly of one another behind closed doors, cliques formed and hardened fast, and if you weren't part of the right group, you felt it. Unkind doesn't begin to cover it. Basic professionalism and common decency were in short supply. Management set the tone for all of it. Leaders who should have modeled integrity instead participated in the drama, played favorites openly, and addressed conflict with either complete avoidance or outright retaliation. HR was not a resource — it was a shield for bad behavior at the top. I left for my own sanity. The turnover rate here should tell you everything. Life is too short and your career too important to spend either in an environment like this one.

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