Stay away from this company - Compliance Officer BNP Paribas Employee Review

1.0
9 May 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The SAMS health insurance is the biggest advantage and having BNPP on your CV looks good. However, it is not worth it.

Cons

1 - Salary: The salaries are terrible and the "raises" are a joke. You get the same raise as everyone else (as well as bonus), even though your evaluation of the year was better. 2 - Management: Your line manager does not care about you and your Team Leader just replies to e-mails all day and barely knows what you are actually doing. Furthermore, you only get promotions if you butter you TL up (e.g. people can ask for mobility after 2 years; however some friends of the TL get it without even a year...). 3 - Transparency: It does not matter what position you would like to work in the future, you will not get it unless you are friends with the TL. Positions are filled internally, without even being officially open. People whose quality of work is debatable get ahead at all times. 4 - HR department: Unfortunate cases like an employee having to take tranquilizers just to go to work, due to the pressure and aggressiveness of the TL, do not matter to the HR department. They barely reply to your e-mails and are heavily biased towards the management. 5 - Illegal practices: Some employees have been asked to shorten their lunch break to 3omin. That's illegal and goes against the Portuguese Labour Law. 6 - IT systems: Computers are from the early 2000s and the systems are from the 90s. 7 - Career Development: Non-existant. You will not grow here.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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