Decent place to work, too many hats to wear versus other banks, not enough pay, horrible back office, unmatched politics - Anonymous employee BBVA Employee Review

2.0
Sep 3, 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Base pay is in line with other banks, customer service is a priority, you learn multiple roles vs other major banks, commercial, residential, investments, deposit accounts. You can take experience running : managing other roles and move to other banks for better compensation : career growth

Cons

Too many non-performing employees get promoted to higher positions merely due to politics, you have to wear too many hats, goals are not weighted fairly across the board to compete nationally. Peers have goals that are not apples to apples making some locations easier to hit scorecards, systems are still lacking vs competition, too many people in management roles that have no management ability, that have no idea how to support their teams, no knowledge of the products : environment : challenges, provide no real feedback : help. Environment makes performing employees feel like they should do less and just make a paycheck, move to the competition, vacation has been cut among other compensating factors, not enough time off to balance work : high stress. Too many departments on different pages, sales management wants goals hit, back office fights to close sales, back office teams rarely communicate correct information to the front line. Too many managers in power roles not making decisions in a timely manner or at all. Too many people pass the buck.

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That being said, any team or department that lefts unchecked can end up becoming toxic which happened at my team. There was a VP/ED who was mistreating me to a point where it was a violation of the code of conduct and was impacting my overall internship experience and my chances at a full time job because this ed/vp was allowed to mistreat based on personal biases against me. I reported it to our manager during our midterm meeting to which I phrased it as “he was in violation of the code of conduct and has been abusive”. Instead he yelled at me during the meeting because he didn’t want to lose someone who downgraded from a BB that he got for cheap. He said in the end of the meeting he would talk with the Ed/vp but a month later he pulled me into a room with HR and said today was the last day of my internship. Very unprofessional as he clearly sided with the toxic Ed/vp and booted me out because he didn’t want to lose the Ed/vp even if he was in violation of the code of conduct. Horrible experince and everyone in my team failed to uphold to professional decency. As long as everyone in that team is still there would not recommend this team at BBVA unless something structurally changes.

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