A once maternalistic company has become too American. So sad :( - Vice President BNP Paribas Employee Review

2.0
Jan 28, 2019
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Pros

- Excellent Benefits including: Cash pension (instead of a traditional Def Benefit Plan), 401K matching, huge number of vacation days - sometimes merit based - gender equality (but not ethnic equality) -meetings start late which gives a laid-back appearance

Cons

- Company has become too American, losing its soul in the process - Company promotes ESG/CSR/Impact Investing but there is very little time for volunteer work - very political with fiefdoms - difficult to move into other functions and teams - top-down management style - there's always a business restructuring regardless of whether they're needed - too many meetings -people waste each other's time - no room for independent thinking (too much group think) - decisions are usually made out of fear (of regulators, other teams, bosses, etc..) - little cultural diversity - no ethnic diversity - the company claims its socially responsible, but no one has any visible disability that's working there - too much pressure to work on periodic and ad hoc reports which few read - very little time to think and be creative - company is outsourcing as many functions as possible which lowers moral - employees feel as if they're part of a corporate machine - management has not taken enough responsibility for corporate misdeeds - active age discrimination

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 8, 2026
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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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