Frustrating - Anonymous employee BNY Employee Review

1.0
Sep 23, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are good, vacation is generous

Cons

In Asset Servicing, compensation is very low, salary increases are offensive and jobs are being offshored to India. There are too many layers of management that do essentially nothing but are very well-paid. Senior management is completely out of touch with the needs of the people actually doing the daily work. Opportunities to advance are few and far between, talent is not rewarded - people are expected to be high performers yet are not rewarded in any way for their efforts. Poor performers linger for YEARS when they should be terminated. The communication between various internal groups is very poor. These conditions have led to much resentment and frustration among employees, leading people to seek external employment opportunities.

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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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