Just avoid it - Recensione dipendente - Front Office presso BNP Paribas

1,0
29 mar 2019
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

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You can leave the office after 8hrs and 1 min. No one control if you take 10 breaks per day. You can put BNP CIB in your cv.

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Well, where do I start from? First of all, the only reason why they employ more than 5k people in Portugal is because they can pay the employees based on the Portuguese standard and not on the industry average. Intern 6 months 400€ Intern 12 month 725€ Permanent 1000€, but watch out! these figures can vary a lot based on your nationality, Portuguese people are usually paid 10/15% less than a foreigner. No career progression and no salary rise at all, or better they give you titles such as "Team Leader" just to add more responsibilities to your workload. Most salary rise are around 1€ per day (20/30€ per month). BNPP in 2018 made 7bn€ of profit. HR department is a complete disaster, inefficient, unprepared and not responsive at all. 6 payslips out of 12 so far contained at least one error. Recruitment process: 90% of my colleagues had no finance background, they just hire everyone who is willing to receive the few € they offer. Personal experience of a colleague who left the bank in may for having 3 months of vacations and then joined again (permanent position) in September in a slightly different team. Lack of direction from Managers, in the end, what do you expect from a manager that gets 1200€ per month? All the decisions are taken by Paris, Portugal is just seen as a cheap labor force. The unsatisfaction is spread all over the employees, during lunchtime the most common conversation is about applications to other jobs. in conclusion: IF YOU PAY PEANUTS YOU GET MONKEYS!

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5,0
28 mag 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

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love working here been here 4 years

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return to office policy is tough

1,0
8 mag 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

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

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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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