Great company, lacks a wee bit of democracy - Software Engineer BBVA Employee Review

3.0
Jul 21, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- They offer a good salary - They have plenty of teams spread into 4 buildings. If you can't get along with your team, they will relocate you so hard that you'll think you changed companies. - If you're not in a coolgen team, great learning opportunities - They pay for overtime

Cons

- If you're hired as a Coolgen programmer, your skills will be useful for very very few companies around the world. Also, your knowledge about other platforms and general CS will diminish over time. - Word of the boss is law. Even if hundreds of employees dispute a high ranking manager, they won't be able to sway them. - Paying for overtime weaved overtime into company's culture. Project planning is made with the assumption that you'll be staying in the evenings. Sometimes people stay just for the extra cash. - You're kind of expected to work overtime. If you're an efficient person who never needs to work overtime, you'll still look lazy. - They are very, very, resistant to change. It might require a lot of persistence to use some newer technologies in a project. - Some key divisions are understaffed and you get very slow responses. - If you are not a new graduate, They divide your years of experience by half. It makes getting promoted very hard. Also this is a condescending attitude if you ask me.

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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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