HSBC reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(28,236 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 28,236 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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1.0
Oct 23, 2013

Waste you life

Recommend
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Pros

A famous brand, that's it!

Cons

- Very easy to maintain your job if you are "smart" enough, just play with them, when everybody is fighting for their tasks, you can only cost 2 hours to finish the job for the whole week, then pretend hard working - Very easy to deal with the managers or whoever above your position, just play your role like in a drama, say what they think you should say, do what look smart but actually stupid as management suggested. - Very easy to feel proud if you are in IT department, as they are using systems from Jurassic Period, if you know a bit Database, or coding .NET ...just something very superficial, you may look like a HERO to them. - Very nice OLD employ will teach you get a long with managers, as they will be your reference in the future. - Very nice peers will strongly support you to find another job outside of the company when they think you are a danger one, who blocked their way up. - Very hi-tech management will provide you a blackberry to ring you up at 2 am and asks you to give a response in 20 mins without over time pay. - Very easy to avoid making any trouble at work, what you need to know is make things as big as you can, let as many as ppl to involve, they will fight with each other very quickly and eventually totally forget about who you are and what you have done, sometimes even yourself dont know who you are! - Very fair anonymous survey every year as all managers will 100% sure who gave them negative feedback.

1.0
Oct 15, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

If you want to "sounds good" in your resume, then it might be worth. Benefits are not bad, but compares what you contribute to the company, it is just OK.

Cons

Over 80% of your energy need to be wasted on office politics, as you never know the person sitting beside you could be your manager's wife, uncle, aunt, father in law, or "mate" at night Doing work smart could not be the reason to get promoted, but if you know the rule of the game, you will probably win. Example: when everybody looks like idiot in the meeting, and someone is doing the job incorrectly, the best idea is shut your mouth up, and act as an idiot as everyone else, otherwise , you will be "let go" soon. whenever anythings up, the first thing you should do is cover your own a**! If you want to stay there in the rest of your life, you should either work hard as a DOG without no respect, or you work as an a**hole to get in good relationship with those big a**holes by ALL MEANS, this is the rule of the game at there forever. System running down is a common "event" there, as LOW IQ people all over to do the system design, analysis, and management, and no one really care what they did for the bank really, no one care their peers really.

3.0
Jun 28, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Stabilization, Krakow area, some good people over there

Cons

there is group of people in charge who do everything to cover their backs, no managerial skillset at all; new joiners are going through hard time for first 12 months, in case they try to be independent they are going to be fired, managers lies about everything, using Your ideas for their promotions...

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