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 Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Mar 8, 2011

Somewhat frustrating and highly political.

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Pros

The Benefits are good in terms of vacation and medical. Vacation if you are AVP or higher. There are some good people but they don't always stay too long.

Cons

Terrible leaders and sub leaders. Most of the leadership is based on friendships and not qualifications. Most managers care about there money and position and not really about been good managers or following good practices. You are place in box and management try to run with lowest underpaid staff possible therefore no matter how qualified you are they will and can't really move you. Keep in mind HR's purpose is to protect the management and usually of no use in any other area other than offering information on your benefits. This may not be true for all management but reflect my experience with my area and with friends from other areas. You can advance if you Brown Nose with Management and sell out a few of your co-workers.

1.0
Mar 6, 2011
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Pros

Vacation days are above average. Year budget is relatively low than competitors (but has been increasing in the past 2 years).

Cons

Most of the employees are poorly paid. Only managers and top performers are paid above 70% of the money they should been paid. The rest--about 30% compared to workers in US banks with the same job. The bank has been running toward a wrong direction--what BNPP really need is to streamline their business and leverage their trading, IT and supporting functions but instead the management hired a lot of very expensive sales people in 2009/2010, leaving a monstrous sales force the bank can not really support. Pricing from the trading is still below average, client on-boarding takes months, market strategies are stubborn one-way bet, and the IT system is a joke.

2.0
Mar 2, 2011

Lack of management leadership and communications

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Pros

Can be challenging work experience Stable company to work for due to low risk management style

Cons

Flat career opportunities for advancement Lack of communications between upper management and employees Poor work - life balance

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