BNP Paribas reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(9,116 total reviews)
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Jean-Laurent Bonnafé

83% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

BNP Paribas has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 9,116 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BNP Paribas employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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9K reviews
1.0
Mar 6, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Vacation days are above average. Year budget is relatively low than competitors (but has been increasing in the past 2 years).

Cons

Most of the employees are poorly paid. Only managers and top performers are paid above 70% of the money they should been paid. The rest--about 30% compared to workers in US banks with the same job. The bank has been running toward a wrong direction--what BNPP really need is to streamline their business and leverage their trading, IT and supporting functions but instead the management hired a lot of very expensive sales people in 2009/2010, leaving a monstrous sales force the bank can not really support. Pricing from the trading is still below average, client on-boarding takes months, market strategies are stubborn one-way bet, and the IT system is a joke.

2.0
Mar 2, 2011

Lack of management leadership and communications

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Can be challenging work experience Stable company to work for due to low risk management style

Cons

Flat career opportunities for advancement Lack of communications between upper management and employees Poor work - life balance

5.0
Feb 28, 2011

Learning

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great team, very friendly people - very professional environment - reasonable work/ life balance, opportunity to take breaks - International exposure, mainly on the EMEA market

Cons

Limited opportunities for promotion, few possibilities to join teams abroad. Besides, teams are not very diverse, few foreigners, though most of the work is done in English.

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