BNY Mellon was a terrible place to work. - Anonymous employee BNY Employee Review

1.0
Apr 15, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The building is in downtown.

Cons

You work with managers who don't know basic skills of MS Office. They play favorites and only promote those who suck up to them. Even training has not even been up to par. Certain mangers play favorites so much that it doesn't matter when their favorite employee has come in late, spends all their time watching stupid movies online, leaves for an hour at a time in the middle of the day. There is no professionalism. If you've worked in the corporate area for over a year...avoid this place!

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It's a large bank and you're a number in the system. If your NPV is positive you'll stay, else you'll be laid off. This includes both scenarios you control and those you don't. Ex. You control your performance, in office time and networking You don't control if your location is a strategic growth site, if a major client goes with a competitor, or if you'd be impacted by a general company-wide layoff plan.

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