HSBC reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(28,234 total reviews)
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Georges Elhedery

69% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

HSBC has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 28,234 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
3.0
May 13, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Very smart people, lots of global opportunities if that is compelling to you. Big company wields a lot of power with vendors so great benefits, decent vendor relationships where vendors are allowed to operate.

Cons

If you don't want to work globally, it will hamper your career progression and your opportunities. Not the best place for women, particularly those who want a work/life balance. These days, most of the growth and innovation is very limited to a couple of groups who are then pushing protocol and platforms out to other parts of the organization. If you want to be a trailbreaker, the opps are limited.

1.0
Mar 3, 2025

They will single you out

Recommend
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Pros

Pros? none. I worked for this company in and out for more than 10 years. But I cried almost everyday.

Cons

They will single you out like I said. If you are quiet person, who doesn't complain, they will take advantage of you. Like for instance, there's an emergency regarding a package or loan, even if it's 10pm, my boss will text me and tells me if I can go online to fix something. Because it's me I never say no. But when it comes to credits and bonuses and promotion, my name never mentioned. The last time I was there, in a whole team, I was the only one that did not get bonus and raise. The new people that I trained got raise and bonus. How is that fair? When I questioned them, they don't have an answer. This is a huge discrimination. HR asked me if I want to take this to higher up and possibly some settlement. They are lucky I didn't because some of the managers will lose their jobs. All I did was quit. I regret that I didn't take this further.

1.0
Feb 3, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

HSBC is a good retirement company only in few circumstances.

Cons

I worked with HSBC, Bengaluru in their GPB team. In my tenure of one year there, the kind of emotional torture I went through because how the managers, who favoured one particular employee and pushed her up and taking not just my job but also teaming up against me whilst not just threatening me but also defaming me publicly, eventually they crossed all their limits and made me quit the company.

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