Still ways to go - Senior Vice President BBVA Employee Review

2.0
Apr 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Innovative bank, some smart folks, most buildings have a cafeteria, and some markets offer health clinic.

Cons

Too many non performing employees, like Scar from the Lion King "I am surrounded by idiots." Little training, typical HR issues ("you matter, but not really"), Non accountable management, more managers than true leaders, very inefficient process & procedures. Hiring like minded folks (i.e. I was raised in a branch and now I lead a strategic unit, but still manage like I work in a 1980's branch... I will hiring folks just like me.), in my opinion, not a good move.

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Pros

BBVA as a whole, it has a very friendly work environment and has a unique culture unlike any other bank in midtown

Cons

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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