A good job if you are looking for a stable job with no risks - Compliance Analyst BNP Paribas Employee Review

2.0
Mar 23, 2022
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Pros

- Stable environment - 9 to 6 is very feasible - Salary Bonus is ok

Cons

- Compensation and salary increments are well below market. Had to beg for a pay increase and promotion, which was a very negative experience and a top reason I left. - Poor HR management and it was almost non-existent. Internal transfer requests were managed very poorly and provides very limited support for the employee. - No transparency on corporate ranks and pay-scale. It makes career progression very unclear and blurred. It means that teams appear very flat but someone doing the same thing as you could be compensated twice as much as you. - Work processes and escalation go throughs too many people within middle management which has little effect on the outcome of the decision (too many layers). It wastes a lot of unnecessary time and resources from the initial stakeholder. - Internal Stake-holders do not communicate well with each other and are often not very collaborative. Work can be pushed around and be left for ages without proper ownership. - Slow on systems development which are very outdated. The systems are not very user friendly and demands a lot of manual work around. - Culture is very reserved. The relationship between different functions can be very bureaucratic - Lack of Diversity in Management. If you are non-French speaking, you can feel excluded and distant.

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5.0
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Cons

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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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