In the beginning it was a very positive work environment but in the end there was no communication. - IT Security BNP Paribas Employee Review

3.0
Sep 21, 2011
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Pros

Other then the management the general staff in most departments were very good people to work with. In most cases I found that communication was good. When there weren't so many economic crises usually the pay and general feed back you received was positive.

Cons

In the current economic times the upper management decisions are poor at best. It feels as if they are only thinking from short term perspective rather then long term. It makes for a very unsettled work environment. Generally the pay and bonuses at BNP are the lowest in the financial world.

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1.0
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Pros

The only good thing about this place were the Nespresso machines.

Cons

I rarely leave reviews, but future job seekers deserve fair warning. From day one, it was clear that micromanagement was a core operating principle here; not a quirk, but a feature. Managers routinely hovered over routine tasks, demanded pointless status updates multiple times a day, constantly changed directives, took credit for my work, and treated experienced professionals like they couldn't be trusted to send an email unsupervised. Any sense of autonomy was purely cosmetic. The culture was equally poisonous. Gossip wasn't background noise; it was practically a department function. Colleagues regularly spoke poorly of one another behind closed doors, cliques formed and hardened fast, and if you weren't part of the right group, you felt it. Unkind doesn't begin to cover it. Basic professionalism and common decency were in short supply. Management set the tone for all of it. Leaders who should have modeled integrity instead participated in the drama, played favorites openly, and addressed conflict with either complete avoidance or outright retaliation. HR was not a resource — it was a shield for bad behavior at the top. I left for my own sanity. The turnover rate here should tell you everything. Life is too short and your career too important to spend either in an environment like this one.

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