BNP Paribas reviews

3.8

77% would recommend to a friend

(9,060 total reviews)
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Jean-Laurent Bonnafé

84% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

BNP Paribas has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 9,060 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 Finanzas 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 26, 2018
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Pros

There are no pros, just do not go there. If you go, make sure you leave after a year as you’d not get any promotion anyways

Cons

*Completely worn out facilities (10 Harewood avenue, London) to the extent when there is a strong stain in the bathrooms all the time and mice running around the trading floors. *Dirty carpets and outdated IT equipment *No way to progress unless you’re French or worked in the same position for five years min *Company does not care about employees health. To get a standing desk, you need to get an injury first. Only then you’d be able to apply for a desk and the odds are low to get one *Management generally do not care about employee perspectives. No investments in people. *Very bureaucratic *BNP Paribas tries to show itself as an advanced company in technologies but nothing is working, IT systems are sluggish and outdated *Remuneration and wage are among the lowest ones, no pay rises, no bonuses regardless of loyalty and quality of the job done

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