BBVA is awful - Branch Associate BBVA Employee Review

1.0
May 2, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It was a foot into the banking world. I learn quite a bit. From handling transactions to account maintenance to if you cry loud enough you'll get anything waived.

Cons

Insurance keeps changing for the worst. Incentive plans keep changing making them unobtainable. Unobtainable sales goals. Manager would never come out of the office. Always shoving products down customers throats whether they need that product or not. Skeleton crews everywhere. Pointless paperwork. Never any consistency. Well.... so and so branch waves the fees for me or call your manager they know me. Policies never applied to the people with large accounts. It was frustrating. You'd tell them one thing then they would run to the managers office and manager would okay the transaction or request every time. If you had someone with a small account it would hardly ever be overturned.

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

amazing company if you're looking to grow into your financial career. Offers plenty room for growth.

Cons

It takes a while to break out of the retail banking side of the finance world.

2.0
Apr 18, 2026
Recommend
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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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