Worked for BBVA Compass for five years - Anonymous employee BBVA Employee Review

1.0
Dec 10, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not very many of them left.

Cons

This company has spent so much time restructuring that they have forgotten about the people who make the company successful. Their employees. I was there when they "restructured" and in the process "laid" off quite a few of their managers, One year later they did the exact same thing but hey they offered them the opportunity to reapply within the district for other open positions, usually lower paying positions. After watching this I could not see myself devoted to a company that clearly was not devoted to it's employees. Which is very sad. In it's day this was a great company to work for.

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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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