Zero work life balance, poor staff morale with low salary and compensation compared to competitors - Anonymous employee BNP Paribas Employee Review

2.0
Nov 20, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Stable work environment, with very little fear of redundancies. People are friendly and very sociable despite the poor morale within the office.

Cons

High staff turnover, meaning little experience is retained. Headcounts are reduced year on year with volumes increasing making it impossible to get daily work done without having to do extra hour's everyday. Salary and compensation does not come into line with the rest of the industry.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 8, 2026
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Pros

The only good thing about this place were the Nespresso machines.

Cons

I rarely leave reviews, but future job seekers deserve fair warning. From day one, it was clear that micromanagement was a core operating principle here; not a quirk, but a feature. Managers routinely hovered over routine tasks, demanded pointless status updates multiple times a day, constantly changed directives, took credit for my work, and treated experienced professionals like they couldn't be trusted to send an email unsupervised. Any sense of autonomy was purely cosmetic. The culture was equally poisonous. Gossip wasn't background noise; it was practically a department function. Colleagues regularly spoke poorly of one another behind closed doors, cliques formed and hardened fast, and if you weren't part of the right group, you felt it. Unkind doesn't begin to cover it. Basic professionalism and common decency were in short supply. Management set the tone for all of it. Leaders who should have modeled integrity instead participated in the drama, played favorites openly, and addressed conflict with either complete avoidance or outright retaliation. HR was not a resource — it was a shield for bad behavior at the top. I left for my own sanity. The turnover rate here should tell you everything. Life is too short and your career too important to spend either in an environment like this one.

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