HSBC reviews

3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(28,233 total reviews)
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Georges Elhedery

69% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

HSBC has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 28,233 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HSBC employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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28K reviews
1.0
Jul 6, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

If your manager loves you, you will get everything

Cons

1. for last 2years annual hike is less than 5% while company expenditure is reduced in covid and resources are burning mid-night oil. 2. HR and HR policies are misplaced. 3. You have to struggle to get your money and documents once you leave HSBC. Exit HR management is quite unprofessional. 4. Travel department thinks that they are giving their money in your travel. hence they leave to dry in foreign state. 5. Fake agile implementation. 6. Abuse of digital technology use. 7. worst architect team : architect are not equipped well with the knowledge of microservice architecture. creating random design without proper implementation of design pattern and most of the time relying on team lead. 8. adopted digital transformation but to deploy a new change it require outage and 100s of approval.

1.0
Nov 15, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lax and flexible. Workload was manageable to be fair. Month end is naturally busy.

Cons

Bullying and nepotism, unbareable to work in and the management were very immature in their conduct, absolutely horrible experience. How these bullies get recognised and promoted is beyond me, no help what so ever. Unprofessional is too kind of a word!! Id rather rub vicks in my eyes than work there again. Disgusting culture.

2.0
Nov 3, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay and good work life balance. Upper level management are knowledgable and very helpful on your career growth (no much opportunity to move up though)

Cons

A lot of long time employees are out dated of current banking technologies, operational norms, moreover a sense of customer service. This giant company is undergoing a culture change program that is moving very slowly, probably can't make it to the goal before it closes. Customers are pushing away by very rude branch service that rarely be seen in banking industry. All customer calling are routed to India that can easily put you on hold for an hour. Business is shrinking and branches are closing everywhere.

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