HSBC Bank Development Program reviews

3.7

59% would recommend to a friend

(738 total reviews)
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Georges Elhedery

81% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Bank Development Program employees have rated HSBC with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 738 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Bank Development Program professionals have a good working experience there. HSBC is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Bank Development Program professionals compared to other employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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738 reviews
3.0
Nov 7, 2013

Personal Banker

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Pros

Great learning grounds as a sales environment. At my location, it is very busy and the customer base is very diverse - management and customers both do a thorough job of testing your patience and ability to cross-sell. Opportunity to learn a wide breadth of skills.

Cons

Management is very stiff; the work environment is political and not welcoming. The pay is below average for an entry-level CSR role.

1.0
Oct 10, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

You get lots of "training" and "supervision" by unskilled managers (basically everyone above you is a manager), and all the managers play favourites. So if you want to work for a company that reminds you of how junior high or high school is like, by all means work for HSBC Canada. There's always water in the water cooler.

Cons

1) Almost minimum wage 2) Extremely long hours, and your lunch time can be sacrificed at the whim of a manager 3) Computer systems dating back to the 1980s. If you like working with multiple programs (last update is 1995) to do one simple transaction, then HSBC Canada is for you. 4) Inconveniently strict and illogical banking policies that will anger 99% of customers, and guess what, you have to explain to them why the bank cannot and will not give them their money when requested. 5) Your colleagues gossip and stab you in the back at the first chance to do so. 6) Your managers will try their best to make you look and feel dumb, as per junior high and high school tactics. 7) HSBC Canada treats their employees worse than new customers because we aren't allowed line of credit or loans of under $5k after over a year's experience, while newcomers to the country get $10k loan just because they work for an international auditing company?

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