Relevantly okay bank with very bad culture and attitude among employees - Anonymous employee BBVA Employee Review

3.0
Apr 18, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Big, prestigious, upper-class network, good on cv, somewhat regulated work conditions compared to other banks in Istanbul where there are work/life balance.

Cons

Static, innovation discouraged, lots of drama and unethical games for promotion, negative vibes in management and in general, workload with little intellectuality while people hired are quite intellectual.

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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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