Hypocrisy and Lies - Vice President BNP Paribas Employee Review

1.0
30 Jan 2021
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Pros

Vacation time was very generous.

Cons

Management is a joke. Training is nil. HR is ineffective and not to be trusted. Do not believe any progressive policies or initiatives. Treats women poorly. Middle-aged, straight white men who are poor managers and pathetic can get away with murder. Women are set up to fail with impossible mandates and punish them for failing only to justify another appointment of a white, straight male to replace them.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
8 May 2026
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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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