Lack of management , underpays compared to competition - Trader BNP Paribas Employee Review

2.0
14 Sept 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- Good life balance. You don't work as long hours as other banks. - Friendly environment. - It's a good place to learn. There are training opportunities and people are eager to share their experience. - Entry salary is the same than competition. - There are many internal opportunities. - The benefits a part from compensation (health, promotion, art and culture events...) are way above average.

Cons

- French as a language prevails. So does the culture meaning long processes to get things up and working. - A few years in, your pay is below average (fix). -

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
8 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The only good thing about this place were the Nespresso machines.

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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