Overall, a bank where people appear to be contented and stay a long time. - Senior Marketing Assistant, WM (Assistant Vice President) BNP Paribas Employee Review

3.0
3 May 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- Annual Leave 24 days - Work Life Balance - Alot of freedom and free reign to do your job - Flexibility on the time you reach office, go for lunch, go home - Most people are helpful

Cons

- Cliques are very strong here and it isn’t easy to break into one - Segregation of old timers vs new joiners - People come here to work, not to make friends. Eating lunch alone is common here. People don’t ask each other out for lunch, after work activities are unheard of - Company events such as D&D are non-existent - Bonus is bad and increment is non-existent - Processes put in place are not logical - Client review process is tedious - Alot of dead weight in the bank, the bank keeps hiring without thinking of how to improve the processes and cut headcount - Resistant to Change - Processes are very backward for private banking compared to other banks and there is no plans to change it

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5.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
8 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The only good thing about this place were the Nespresso machines.

Cons

I rarely leave reviews, but future job seekers deserve fair warning. From day one, it was clear that micromanagement was a core operating principle here; not a quirk, but a feature. Managers routinely hovered over routine tasks, demanded pointless status updates multiple times a day, constantly changed directives, took credit for my work, and treated experienced professionals like they couldn't be trusted to send an email unsupervised. Any sense of autonomy was purely cosmetic. The culture was equally poisonous. Gossip wasn't background noise; it was practically a department function. Colleagues regularly spoke poorly of one another behind closed doors, cliques formed and hardened fast, and if you weren't part of the right group, you felt it. Unkind doesn't begin to cover it. Basic professionalism and common decency were in short supply. Management set the tone for all of it. Leaders who should have modeled integrity instead participated in the drama, played favorites openly, and addressed conflict with either complete avoidance or outright retaliation. HR was not a resource — it was a shield for bad behavior at the top. I left for my own sanity. The turnover rate here should tell you everything. Life is too short and your career too important to spend either in an environment like this one.

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