BNP Paribas reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(9,102 total reviews)
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Jean-Laurent Bonnafé

83% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

BNP Paribas has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 9,102 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BNP Paribas employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Oct 31, 2016

Unless you have no other choices

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Pros

You can just sit back relax without getting fired, as your seniority goes up so will you compensation. Definitely recommend for those who has a decade of experience with good salary negotiation skills to retire there. Occasionally, you get to witness seniors who cannot handle stress hide in toilet and cry for 2 hours (Rare high value entertainment something that you thought could only happen in movies).

Cons

New comers take most of the work. Useless senior staff who refuse to not retire there will always have the last laugh in both compensation and workload. They pay lowest in the industry (especially for graduates), but if you have the aura of uselessness it will trigger a slight pay hike. Very little value add to career because the environment encourages people to stay low profile and not innovate. Those who are more capable are constantly leaving or have left. Those who stay on usually are exetremely unlucky in job hunt, to crappy to find new job due to their incompetency or intend to retire. You can hope for promotion if you intend to queue behind those who are more useless but more senior them you. Oh ya, the management is racist. The senior management are all made up of French.

1.0
Dec 8, 2016

Horrible experience

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Was part of wealth management-company provides decent work-life balance overall.

Cons

Many managers who have stayed with the bank for ~15-20 years are very insecure about their positions and hence, give less-tenured employees & new hires a very hard time. Lots of attrition and turnover in some teams with managers taking no responsibility for it. Even useless tasks (e.g.generating reports) are made a big deal while the bank actually lags behind peers in terms of business.

1.0
May 3, 2016
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Pros

decent pay below market average

Cons

this bank is really notorious for bullying newcomers (check with your peers from other banks). high conversion from contract to permanent; reason being high turnover rate. highly political place and no mutual respect between staffs. outdated systems and unproductive work processes.

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