Managers who couldn't hack it at the big boy banks - Anonymous employee BBVA Employee Review

1.0
Nov 7, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You will be the smartest person in the room most of the time. Work life is good on account I poor management/managing.

Cons

Poor pay, no meritocracy wrt managers and city president who are there simply by sticking around long enough, furthering stroked egos. Poor IT system controls, leading to duplicative work. The teams essentially just cold call from a list or wait for a real bank to lead a deal and allow BBVA to come in and participate. Sales people are on the merry go round and BBVA is just their current stop - typically been at 3 or 4 other banks. No intellectual bandwidth.

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BBVA as a whole, it has a very friendly work environment and has a unique culture unlike any other bank in midtown

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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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