Due Diligence Analyst - Anonymous employee BNP Paribas Employee Review

3.0
16 Dec 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

BNP Paribas is a good company to have on your CV, it being one of the largest banks with an international presence. They offer good benefits with average pension matching. The colleagues in this team are young, smart and fun to be around. The offices are also located downtown, which is quite convenient for your daily commute and lunch needs. They also have occasional events and good online training classes on a multitude of subjects, accessible to all.

Cons

There are also many cons to working at this company, which are evidenced by the extremely high turnover rate within the team and to a certain extent the department. Employees have been leaving in droves due to a multitude of factors including inexperienced and terrible management, low salary, unclear procedures/rules, excessively long turnaround times due to inefficiencies and departments being short staffed, large amount of work and not enough support staff, high pressure, etc. It is only worth working here if you don't have much experience under the belt and need a year or two before moving on. At least 70% of the employees are constantly searching for their next move and people are quite unhappy.

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5.0
9 Jun 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
8 May 2026
Recommend
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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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