Natixis reviews

- After completing training, you will soon realise how repetitive and monotonous are the tasks — a waste of your qualifications, education, and even the initial training itself. Your day will be spent doing administrative, backoffice-style work (eg sending emails, creating folders, moving files from one folder to another, updating databases etc). - The IT tools are clunky and feel like they haven’t been updated since the 1990s. - No autonomy and totally dependent on Paris approval — the Porto office seems to exist to outsource work from Paris and get people to do the exact same tasks for lower wages. - On that note, wages are quite low with laughable yearly raises (think €0.14/hour more). Very demoralising to know you do the same as your French coworkers, yet you earn around €900/month while they earn €1300+/month. - Forced to work on Portuguese bank holidays. - No real opportunities for career progression. - Not fully remote. You’re required to go to the office two days a week for ‘reasons’, to still have to do meetings over Teams and to do the exact same tasks you do at home.

You're dependant on a number of teams to get anything at all done. The technology is very outdated and obscure. Very Kafkaesque workplace where decisions are made by the French office with little to no regard as to how it will affect people in other branches. French employees refuse to speak in English. Middle management is focused on improving their careers instead of making quality products, since it is assumed that quality doesn't matter as a default. Speaking of which, no internal solutions *work*. Instead of maintaining the ones that do work, a lot of publicity and hype is generated around a "new and innovative" product or service that in reality has half the features of its predecessor.