Disgusting is too nice of a word to describe BNP Paribas.
Pros
The only reason to work for BNP is if you're looking for the time off: 25 days annually for analysts and it goes up from there. Other than that....ummmm, errr....ahhhh...I'll get back to you. Actually, probably not.
Cons
Pay is laughable. However, since internal employee reviews of the company have all pointed to this as a huge negative for several years...can you guess what management decides to do in an attempt to correct it? They institute a new policy that states if you go "above and beyond" going forward you "may" get a little more of the pie next bonus cycle, yet there is no guarantee. So basically, do more and maybe we'll give you what you've been worth all along. Talk about an insult to those who have consistently gone above and beyond for mere peanuts year in and year out with no promotions or decent raises, and don't want to do it anymore since there was never an incentive or reward given when there should have been. Why couldn't BNP instead simply raise salaries on a whole, say 5%, since the problem was endemic within the corporation? Everyone without wool over their eyes knows that they're getting shafted at least 5% lower than current market rate. That's a no-brainer folks, but these fools in charge rather push more work on an already tired and demotivated workforce. French management coming over to fill positions of managers leaving (the new trend by the way) have absolutely NO clue, are rude and sarcastic, and do nothing to learn the culture or what matters to the employees here in North America. My group had a manager pushed on us from France with zero option to rebut. He started as a lower level manager and was promoted, within one year, to HEAD of the group, and now grabbing more groups from satellite offices. I was with the bank for SIX years and never saw anyone move that fast. Yet those of us who have been there and had fought the good fight were passed over constantly and handed the BS excuses as if we were all born this morning and weren't able to see the writing on the wall. BNP expects you to die in the position you're given if you're non-French or don't speak French, plain and simple. Now wonder people are leaving the bank like Krakatoa is about to explode for a second time. Avoid this place like the plague or don't listen and go and work for them. Eventually you'll see that this company is primitive both in it's business approach and handling of it's employees.
