BNP Paribas reviews

The pay and small quarterly bonus is not worth the stress of the high sales goals. The managers are constantly breathing down your neck to find (or make up) sales for customers even when nothing is needed. Even after you finally meet your sales goals for the quarter, you are still constantly lectured to get more and more or you are just not good enough. Plus every month you get these tedious and time consuming assignments that you must complete while trying to deal with customers in the meantime. Honestly, if I didn't have to worry about the stressful sales, and just worry about customer service, it wouldn't be a bad job. When I go to the bank, I don't want to be asked about getting a savings account or if I have insurance every single time. I just want to do my transaction and get out. Advice to Senior Management

Most of the employees are poorly paid. Only managers and top performers are paid above 70% of the money they should been paid. The rest--about 30% compared to workers in US banks with the same job. The bank has been running toward a wrong direction--what BNPP really need is to streamline their business and leverage their trading, IT and supporting functions but instead the management hired a lot of very expensive sales people in 2009/2010, leaving a monstrous sales force the bank can not really support. Pricing from the trading is still below average, client on-boarding takes months, market strategies are stubborn one-way bet, and the IT system is a joke.