BBVA reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(2,038 total reviews)

Jorge Bledel

100% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

BBVA has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,038 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BBVA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
May 10, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They pay salary on time, lunch, shuttle, chairs and desks..

Cons

many people believe that salaries are quite high comparing with other companies, but if you don't work over time, you will realize that your salary is far below than other companies -most of the managers push people to work over time, even if you finished your tasks on time!! If you finish your tasks without over work, they will give you more task next time. This leads people to drink tea and gossip all the day and complete the job at over time. Even if the outcome is same, manager is happy since you work over time. -most people stay at office after 6, just for the traffic. Work location is in the middle of nowhere, locals of the neighbourhood can beat you just because you drink alcohol at after work party, many shady people on the street. -work distribution is not fair, even in same team. while you deal with though tasks everytime, your next desk colleague can play mobile games all day long. Thats because she is probably a relative of a manager. if you are wife of 'someone' or friend of 'someone', you will be really happy here, because your tasks will be given to a slave while you are enjoying. -people are full of ego. Everyone is trying to torture another one. developer tortures the analyst, analyst torture the tester, goes on.. everyone blames each other. noone wants to do the job and people forward the task to another one continiously, it's immpossible to finish a simple task in such environment. people can lie easily to secure themselves. they can say easily 'you didn't say it'. -there are some managers who have problems, if you try to leave the office at 17.57, they can call you while you are about to leave, they can ask where you are going, or they can ask the status of a task, but they don't ask at 15 or 16, they ask intentionally at 17.57, so you will miss the shuttle and stay for over work :) -there is a huge technical debt in code, if you try to add a little piece of code, the system starts to corrupt, its like rubbish since everyone adds the piece of code and the rest is not important. deadlines are strict so you dont want to deal with refactoring or clean code, everyone adds a new 'if' and goes to his own way. -coolgen is a language which no employer shows interest if you want to leave gt. -if you are a fresh graduate, you are a real slave, because you dont realize it at first, you try to be a hard working person to get promoted etc. your managers say good things to you, they want you to work harder and they say you are a potential manager candidate. when you realize that they say the same lie to 10 people it's too late. Even if you work at night, you will be nothing but a donkey. a friend of 'someone' will be the manager:) fresh graduates are the most wanted ones just because they dont know anything about the company, and they only realize after 2 or 3 years. they are just toothpastes, so squeeze them harder before they escape. -annual leaves are not decent, it's 14 days and saturday will be counted as a working day. Never ever think that you can have 14 days in one shot. you will have cramps in stomach while asking for only a week leave. if your manager is added on instagram or facebook and if he saw your photos on holiday, he will get revenge of it when you return to office:)) try not to have too much sun bath, because it turns to you as revenge too. -when you request a 3 hour leave to go hospital, manager can ask for the name of the doctor and hospital, i bet they check it on hospital's web site. mobbing everywhere. -they plan to move the company building to another district which is 50km away to current one. they have been planning it for 10 years, and sometimes they announce that move will happen after 6 months, people move their homes and schools and everything, wait for the company move, but company doest move to anywhere, months are passed, years are passed, these poor people are still waiting and they spend their 3 hours everyday on the way.

1.0
Sep 8, 2016

BBVA Compass -- Stay Away!!!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are no positives. The bank is terrible.

Cons

Bigotry, misogyny, and ignorance are commonplace. There is mandatory on-going diversity training that senior bankers openly mock. The bank systems are dated and faulty despite the PR campaign being conducted by the bank's leadership. The bank's leadership and management are terrible. A few good employees are overwhelmed by the horribly stupid majority. I could go on, but my advice is to stay away.

1.0
May 10, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I started at an OK salary because of my experience. No Saturdays.

Cons

This is going to be a long one but I'll start in chronological order: When I was offered the job, I was told I would be licensed right away and would get paid an even higher salary upon licensing. I left my manager position at another bank to take a banker job because they made it sound like it would be totally worth it and I would get paid more. Once I started, the district manager said, "let's see how you do for 6 mos - 1 year and we will re-visit the licensing." So basically the recruiter told me whatever I wanted to hear so she could make her quick buck. The next issue I had was training. The company was in the process of merging one system to another. Not only did I have to train on the old system, but I had to do another training at the same time for the new system. (which are both equally unreliable, slow and crash all the time!) Throughout both trainings, I learned how to open an account. That's it. And even the knowledge I did gain from the training, my manager would tell me I was doing it wrong. I basically had to teach myself how to do EVERYTHING with little to no support. Anytime I would ask for help, I would be treated like I was wasting my manager's time, that I was stupid, or "how dare you!!" The internet was slower than molasses, and I swear it was Windows '98! The systems would crash on a weekly basis, including the phones. Since this job was 90% outbound cold calling, when the phones wouldn't work, my manager would try to force me to use my PERSONAL cell phone to make sales calls. I refused because I wasn't comfortable using my personal number to handle business and my boss would roll her eyes and tell me I'm not a team player and I OBVIOUSLY don't care about the banks success. Last, but most certainly not least, their oh-so ethical attendance policy. Sure, it may seem very reasonable and ideal but it's not. Don't let it fool you. My manager insisted I go home because I was too sick to be at work on 3 different occasions and I got written up EACH TIME!! When I tried to fight it, the response I got was "technically, it's unscheduled....." and HR confirmed that my manager could potentially send me home enough times to terminate my employment for excessive absence. Seems fair, right?!?! WRONG!!! If you decide to work for this company, lawyer up first because if you aren't one of the favorites, you are doomed! -Soon to be FORMER employee

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