BNP Paribas reviews

3.8

77% would recommend to a friend

(9,130 total reviews)
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Jean-Laurent Bonnafé

84% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

BNP Paribas has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 9,130 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
Feb 19, 2013

Don't work here!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

4 to 5 weeks of vacation time for new hires

Cons

overworked and underpaid. Signifcant portion of senior management is French and connections matter more than at other companies. If you are not French, you can't break into the power network for the best opportunities. Too many French expats with bad english. There are constantly conversations in French about work and too bad for you if you don't understand.

3.0
Jul 2, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay and excellent benefits

Cons

No room for advancement, no matter how hard you work and how much extra responsibility you take on. They will just keep you in your current position and salary, but expect you to do more and more work.

1.0
Mar 6, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

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