Interviewed in Dublin office. On face of it, looks like a dreary place to work. Reports online not too promising either. Office appears to be run by misfits. Was offered 3 jobs from 4 interviews. No word back from the 4th, BNY Dublin. Very disrespectful from HR but common practice for BNY I am told.
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Recent change in management......now a real disaster on way. It is going from bad to worse and the arrogance is laughable. Do not accept a role here.
Riverside will be gone in a few years. Too big a space with now and outsourcing will be rampant shortly despite what CBI say.
So Riverside being renovated and losing a floor, a few forced out this week to make more room. The place is quickly falling apart, no plan, no vision, making it up from day to day
There is free fruit in every kitchen station.
And free bog roll too, if you are desperate.
Its about time BNY dealt with the management team in Ireland. They in it for what they can get and are laughing at the yanks. Not fit to be called management. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Do not even consider taking a role in the Dublin office, the most disfuntional disgruntled office you could imagine, executives travel over from the US on a weekly basis for a jolly to berate the local management, who to be fair are beyond useless, so many of them and all incapable of recognising the issues, bullying is rife and accepted as the norm
Well thats shocking. Just about to apply to an office down the country. Glad I jumped on here now. I will not bother as that sounds awful. Plenty more places to apply to. Thanks posters.
Yes 1jip, I enjoyed every minute calling in, leaving messages, calling in again, leaving yet another message and after 3 or 4 days getting. a response asking you why you are contacting them. Honestly I’ve always enjoyed fixing dysfunctional problems and with HR there is no apparent end to the opportunities.
wait you mean the call center where you call in, leave a message, call in again, leave a message and maybe in 3 or 4 days you'll get a response asking you why you are contacting them, wasting even more time.
Then even if you get past the useless call center, the first line HR clerk, then you get to the person who is actually the one who has the knowledge and it sounds like they are talking from a room that is an even bigger call center then the first one, their responses are clueless and nothing is more comical then a clueless person trying to act like they know it all.
If BNY wants to get better, HR MUST CHANGE, period.
Please... it is unfair to say that “they do not have a HR dept in a traditional sense”. They actually have an internal HR web site and at least 40% of the links are now actually working. This is much better than it was last year so please let us give credit where due.
Run! Don’t look back, just run!
The head of HR has been there a few months, but the real issue is the staff. They lack any knowledge of laws. You either are a professional and know and understand the relevant laws that pertain to a situation or you don't. If you don't know them they should be fired for job failure.
HR staff should be cleaned out and professionals hired.
Their HR dept just hopes you don't know the laws and when you catch them breaking them they just deflect.
They are a shameful group of people.
BNY do not have a HR dept in traditional sense. They have a team who do recruitment.... no real interest in welfare of people. Person who heads up HR is a legal person..... that says it all. Its like asking an accountant to fix your broken car.