What is the hiring process like at EBRD?

Great place to destroy your career and suck the life out of you, or you're close to retirement and have mastered the art of doing very little as possible whilst looking busy and need to boost your pension. Nice views of the Thames.

There is a stress epidemic, but people won't admit they're stressed and just go off sick and no one seems to be able to do much about it. There is an extreme amount of entitled people who are there solely to protect their positions and their mini empires of inefficient and unproductive staff. Literally, have no clue what their job is other than to float from meeting to meeting and make useless statements or state the obvious. You rarely see these people generate any deliverables. The performance management process is a farce, as is the internal recruitment process. There's no point in applying for a position internally as it's already been given to the biggest boot licker or some aggrieved person who isn't qualified for the role but believes they deserve it. But they have to follow procedures and advertise it anyway. Management is populated with dinosaurs that wouldn't know what good looked like if it hit them in the face. The bank is trying to change but failing at it extremely well and does nothing about it at the same time. In a nutshell, it's extremely toxic and bureaucratic.

Very international environment, amazing London office, great canteen, some great people and inspiring people at all level and some projects can be very exciting, expanding institution that got rid of a few toxic senior staff

- Work life balance can be pretty poor in operational teams, some teams are chaotic/toxic due to endless restructuring - Very little meritocracy and slow career progression, demotivating HR policy that promotes hiring of external candidates of mediocre quality vs decent internal ones and offers higher salaries to new joiners vs well performing long standing staff at the same level so may be safe to look for exit options after 3-5 years if you don't have solid promotion prospects. - poor senior management and governance leads to toxic internal territorial infighting - proliferation of poorly designed and often useless processes managed by staff with no real economy or sectoral expertise that make the bank look amateurish with clients - salary and benefits not enough for a family in London unless you have family wealth or another high earning partner - be careful about promises on immigration exemption status for your partner and family members as HR make promises beyond what the can achieve, get advice/support from immigration lawyers. - hypocrisy in the difference of treatment between Palestine and Ukraine - inclusion policy focusing on gender and LGBT that hides the lack of social diversity with big proportion of staff coming from well-off and well.connected families, especially in local offices. - opacity on salaries

-Good salary and benefits. -Good policies and very supportive environment. -Good employee engagement and feedback process. - Good learning curve

- Bonus is very less. - Some very old technologies in use. - Promotions are very rare. -No growth