BNP Paribas Reviews in France

Current Employee – been working at BNP Paribas as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Big company, good working conditions, good restauration

Cons – Complex hierarchy, rigidity, no innovation

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at BNP Paribas as an intern

Pros – - Work with one of the best brands in France
- As an intern, earned good remuneration
- A lot of exciting projects in the advertising and branding department
- Reasonable working hours
- Canteen, a good Comité d'entreprise for the employees

Cons – - As in any big company, decisions can be quite slow, hierarchy

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BNP Paribas full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Helped in avoiding financial risk by taking measured exposure to risky investment

Cons – Status quo approach to mid-term long term scope for expansion

Advice to Senior Management – Need to be visinary

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at BNP Paribas as an intern

Pros – Good environment, fellows are available and eager to help you.

Cons – Maybe still too attached to the nature of the diploma and to hard skills

Former Employee – worked at BNP Paribas as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Real responsibilities, good mentors and great team spirit

Cons – No further recruitments, french language is helpful

Current Employee – been working at BNP Paribas full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – big company, good reputation, salary not very high but you can get some little bonus

Cons – manager like to talk a lot to make a show, but the result looks poor.
international bank but not international mind.
very slow to change and do anything.

Advice to Senior Management – be more open minded, and listen the young people, they also has some good ideas to improve the quality.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at BNP Paribas full-time for more than a year

Pros – learning on the job
international exposure

Cons – unfriendly and very stressful environment
extensive working hour
unequal employee treatment

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BNP Paribas

Pros – Flexibility, diversity, respect, lot of work

Cons – Challenge, administration, process, no change, not fast

Advice to Senior Management – Challenge, administration, process, no change, not fast, Flexibility, diversity, respect, lot of work

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at BNP Paribas

Pros – Good learning environment, where you can cuiqkly intergrate to and prosper professionnaly. The staff are very friendly and work very interesting.

Cons – Not very strong in managing and showing attention to their interns, but if you put some energy and efforts = you would always get possitive return

Advice to Senior Management – can not suggest a lot about that as i was doing only an internship during 3 month period that is too short period to juge

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BNP Paribas

Pros – paris is a cool, bnp has a very good reputation, and it recuits in general very smart colleagues, and many young people

Cons – the salary is not always comparable to other big banks, the bank remais too french within small cercles,not diversified enough

Advice to Senior Management – to be more international and diversified in activities. to develop emerging markets. to compensate smart young people. make the communication more transparent