More bad than good! - Anonymous employee BBVA Employee Review

3.0
1 June 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are a lot of great people that work for BBVA Compass. Banking holidays and 3 weeks vacation if you make it to 5 years. Its a job that pays decent, not great.

Cons

Over-the-top sales push with no breaks, one campaign ends and the other one begins the next day! If you do good with sales goals one year, the next year your sales goals will be doubled or tripled so that you can't meet your goals. Micromanagement is the norm. Constant changes in everything-policies, procedures, location of electronic resources, job titles, etc...No downtime during working hours, lunch is the only break. Always having to do required training between customers, so you never learn the material you just complete it to get the back office off your back. This company has a high turnover rate. The lowest paid employees do most of the work but get very little credit and pay. You are asked/pressured to participate in activities to promote BBVA Compass after hours without pay.

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5.0
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Pros

amazing company if you're looking to grow into your financial career. Offers plenty room for growth.

Cons

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2.0
18 Apr 2026
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Pros

BBVA as a whole, it has a very friendly work environment and has a unique culture unlike any other bank in midtown

Cons

That being said, any team or department that lefts unchecked can end up becoming toxic which happened at my team. There was a VP/ED who was mistreating me to a point where it was a violation of the code of conduct and was impacting my overall internship experience and my chances at a full time job because this ed/vp was allowed to mistreat based on personal biases against me. I reported it to our manager during our midterm meeting to which I phrased it as “he was in violation of the code of conduct and has been abusive”. Instead he yelled at me during the meeting because he didn’t want to lose someone who downgraded from a BB that he got for cheap. He said in the end of the meeting he would talk with the Ed/vp but a month later he pulled me into a room with HR and said today was the last day of my internship. Very unprofessional as he clearly sided with the toxic Ed/vp and booted me out because he didn’t want to lose the Ed/vp even if he was in violation of the code of conduct. Horrible experince and everyone in my team failed to uphold to professional decency. As long as everyone in that team is still there would not recommend this team at BBVA unless something structurally changes.

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