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
4.0
Jul 6, 2018

AML Compliance Analyst

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible working hours, work from home scheme, good environment

Cons

Very old systems, training could be improved for new starters

4.0
Mar 29, 2016

Senior International Relationship Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

High visibility and commitment from senior management Strong network of peers both in Canada and Internationally Training and development Good benefits and pay

Cons

The expectations from Senior International Managers is high; such aggressive targets can be a intimidating

1.0
Jan 17, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay with work life balance

Cons

Of lately, they are doing mass hiring, they plan to onboard at least 4k people as per their HRs, as per them it is due to they wanted to remove their dependency on contractors, I was offered a really good pay, but the truth is they don't have work. Most of the work is third grade, that they want to hide behind domain knowledge. You will be just doing production support in most projects.. Also before joining I heard of their hire and fire policy, well it has been one month here and I can say it is very much true.. each year they are short of budget, each year their policies change, sometime they want contractors , sometime they want permanent..If a projects does not have budget, they will just fire you, they won't even consider moving you to another department, even when there is opening out there..HR is almost non existant here.. Technology is very outdated, at the time of recruiting, they tell about clouds, mongoDbs, block chain, etc but all these are just there marketing strategies..I have also heard they have this habit of removing the whole team for cost cutting, like in my project there is no testing team, same thing they plan to do with L1 support team, they want these tasks to be handled by dev teams, so that they can get away with support teams as well and reduce cost.. Moreover employees are almost treated as cattle, literally resources, there are no benefits apart from your salary. In short, join only if you really don't have a choice

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