One of the best IT company in Turkey, but worst management - Senior DB2 Specialist BBVA Employee Review

5.0
30 Aug 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It is very nice place to improve your self. There are lots of education organization and also really well experts help you to improve your self. Tons of free stuff, bonuses, shuttle to/from house, daily free lunch/dinner, crazy overtime pay (if all 40 hours on Sunday %50 of your monthly salary) Depending on your department, you can have great experience with recent technologies, and cool languages. Pretty relaxed if you do your job well, time to time it gets really stressful, but, hey, is there any IT place without some stress?

Cons

Location is pretty ugly, terrible neighborhood in Istanbul, hard to reach from most parts. Traffic is a reason to suicide. (Even with a company shuttle).Working environment is not terrible, but pretty uncomfortable. It…

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Pros

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Cons

That being said, any team or department that lefts unchecked can end up becoming toxic which happened at my team. There was a VP/ED who was mistreating me to a point where it was a violation of the code of conduct and was impacting my overall internship experience and my chances at a full time job because this ed/vp was allowed to mistreat based on personal biases against me. I reported it to our manager during our midterm meeting to which I phrased it as “he was in violation of the code of conduct and has been abusive”. Instead he yelled at me during the meeting because he didn’t want to lose someone who downgraded from a BB that he got for cheap. He said in the end of the meeting he would talk with the Ed/vp but a month later he pulled me into a room with HR and said today was the last day of my internship. Very unprofessional as he clearly sided with the toxic Ed/vp and booted me out because he didn’t want to lose the Ed/vp even if he was in violation of the code of conduct. Horrible experince and everyone in my team failed to uphold to professional decency. As long as everyone in that team is still there would not recommend this team at BBVA unless something structurally changes.

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