Not for innovative and analytical graduates - Anonymous employee BBVA Employee Review

1.0
Mar 2, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Salary of the company is above other companies in Turkey sector for a fresh university graduate. The company is bought-out by Spanish BBVA.

Cons

- Corporate culture of the company is a scandal, all employees are trying to humiliate each other and make things harder for others all the time. Managers and Directors positions themselves like Gods of the department and don't make relationships with their team member. Hierarchy is like Berlin Wall and cannot be removed. -Managers do not encourage their team members to learn more or look dfferently. Their only purpose is to preserve the system as it is for years. Even in an excel sheet, there is no tolerance for your tasks to do it differently. -Along with that, carreer opportunities in the company is horrible and there is no allowance for department changes in the company. All the departments threat their employees with low performance ratings and don't let their employees to critisize the system. -The company is far away from professionality and it is full of couples. Marriage with coworkers is seen as a way of getting promotion. The company ignores the existence of this situation.

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