Pros
- Good building - WCs are clean - Free coffee - Free fruit
Cons
- Portuguese citizens are treated as 2nd class employees. There is lack of conduct and disrespect towards Portuguese employee. That behaviour is normal in this bank, as Portuguese are often seen as "cheap labour". - Poor IT services. Too much focus on preventing hacking and data leakage and none on providing a good service to the employees. Mails are controlled, skype conversations are reviewed and censored. It is a micro corporate version of a "big brother". BNP is still on the 80's, technology is not even in the dictionary. - Employees are submitted to a "punch card" time approach, in which their time is fully controlled by an IT system. It seems to be a factory instead of a bank. There is no flexibility to work from home any day of the week (even though they allow it in France and the UK). You can work a minimum of 7h per day, but the punch card system will automatically account 1h to be spent working any other day (8h workday is mandatory and fully accounted). - Shady clauses on employees contracts that bypass the Portuguese Labour Code. As an example, you have to compensate the company in case you terminate your contract before reaching 2 years. In addition, they force you to take a training abroad (useless), so you can compensate the company in case you leave during your contract's trial period. If you are unhappy in BNP, they still want to make money with you anyway (they don't care). - Senior management is dumb, unprepared, disorganized, disoriented and too focused on "visibility". They don't care about the feedback provided by employees. There is no project management (at least in Risk ERA Lisbon). There is no innovation, it is only a theory. - This department doesn't stop recruiting in Lisbon ever. They will always find cheaper than you (and me!) anywhere and anytime. The only thing that matters is recruiting cheaper graduates, so the upper management can earn more and more money. - The company claims to be environmentally friendly, just because they don't provide paper coffee cups (it's a scam to reduce costs obviously).
