Great when you start, terrible as you become useful - Matching Analyst BNP Paribas Employee Review

2.0
6 Jun 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Teammates were nice people. Direct management did make an effort to try and make things enjoyable. There is a clear effort to make DEI policy part of daily life.

Cons

It's a very damaging culture to have the latest hire be the highest paid person in a team (excluding management). Often reminded of this because there is an emphasis on not sharing what you're earning. Obviously, being a legal right people speak about it, therefore this isn't even a smart policy. Salary revision is based on vibes, because the evaluation is completely inaccurate, having people who leave their work incomplete, face multiple incidents a year and fail to show improvement, get better evaluation and raises than others who often do the work of 2 people for weeks straight. When concerns are raised to management and HR this kind of issue gets squashed as soon as possible. Competence and hard work is rewarded with more work. DEI feels forced. It's as if having a poster in your workplace about racism makes up for how little you actually see POC being hired. Having a pride poster doesn't make up for the fact that someone doing the heavy lifting on a team earns less than the person who is learning how to send an email to a client and can't be trusted with an unlocked PC for 10 minutes. Know before going into this company that company success doesn't correlate with your earning power increase, My experience has been the opposite.

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5.0
9 Jun 2026
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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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