Crédit Agricole Reviews

Pros

atmosphere, work balance are one of the best !

Cons

Not as impressive on the resume as a big investment bank

Advice to Senior Management

Keep going

Pros

Descent place to work within a conservative environment where people would do fire fighting rather than prevent fire in the first instance.

Cons

Lacks proven way to deal any problem and is more reactive rather than proactive. Unnecessary fire fighting where situation could have been turned out to be a lot more positive.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more proactive rather than reactive. Value the resources and then resource the values. Value the resource for the decision made to choose them to be one. Then leave the job in their good hands and manage them with diligence and not micro manage.

Pros

Great place to work with many competent people to learn from. Constantly learning with many opportunities to show your abilities.

Cons

The culture is quite competitive and you may find yourself competing against those in similar positions. But overall a great place.

Advice to Senior Management

Begin moving more globally and expanding into emerging markets. Try and stay away from investing in the struggling European markets.

Pros

One of the best things about this company is definitely their benefits. They are a very flexible company and management is really laid back. The company is casual and laid back due to the French culture, which makes it a wonderful environment to work in.

Cons

I heard one of the downsides is the limited growth opportunity, but have not yet experienced it. The company tend to hire people from outside instead of promoting from within.

Advice to Senior Management

I think that the management is doing a great job and they should keep doing what they're doing because they are understanding and flexible.

Pros

a well known group with attractive products

Cons

very special ambiance, some are left away

Advice to Senior Management

good in general, comprehensive and with realist deadlines

Pros

good balance b/w life and work
hour flexibility
colleagues are easy to get along with

Cons

career prospect is not great here
compensation is way uncompetitive
constant change of senior management

Advice to Senior Management

I wish the overall compensation can improve to maintain the competitiveness and good telents

Pros

the best reasons to work at Crédit Agricole is work life is balanced, stable, customer oriented, team work, and friendly.

Cons

some of the downsides of working at Crédit Agricole is there are no opportunity for growth or limited opportunities s

Pros

Work life balance is excellent

Cons

No career growth and exposure at mid management level
Very low bonuses

Advice to Senior Management

Taking target setting and appraisal processes seriously
The organisation is top heavy.

Pros

interesting people, good deal flow, respect of work/life balance, appropriately staffed for analysts/juniors, your superiors will appreciate work that is properly done

Cons

sometimes unable to win mandates against strong competitors like JPM, MS or DB. Sometimes top management not supportive in terms of credit approval

Advice to Senior Management

Maybe the bank should make better use of its strong balance sheet to underwrite more in leveraged finance and high yield securities.

Pros

If you want to have a good work life balance this is the place for you. The people are friendly and not a lot of work pressures.

Cons

Management is completely incompetent and will ignore any and all issues that arise. They prefer to pretend nothing is wrong and simply are yes men to upper management in Paris. The compensation is by far the worst on wall street and management does not seem to care. Do yourself a favor and stay away, the majority of the staff leaves with in 2-3yrs.

Advice to Senior Management

Please compensate your staff.