One of the best place to work in Turkey - Software Developer BBVA Employee Review

4.0
Nov 11, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Tons of free stuff, bonuses, shuttle to/from house, daily free lunch/dinner, crazy overtime pay (if all 40 hours on Sunday %50 of your monthly salary) -Depending on your department, you can have great experience with recent technologies, and cool languages. -Pretty relaxed if you do your job well, time to time it gets really stressful, but, hey, is there any IT place without some stress? -I had really good co-employees and managers, but heard there are really weird ones out there.

Cons

-Depending on your department, you can have really old technologies, languages, and boring tasks. -They still use mid-90's techs, such as GEN, a millennium old mainframe, and that silly language called Cobol. (Still they use C#) -Location is pretty ugly, terrible neighborhood in Istanbul, hard to reach from most parts. Traffic is a reason to suicide. (Even with a company shuttle) -Working environment is not terrible, but pretty uncomfortable. It can get really warm, and stuffy in any season, plus terrible chairs.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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