HSBC reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(28,267 total reviews)
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Georges Elhedery

68% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

HSBC has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 28,267 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
Aug 7, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Decent base salary and access to international clients.

Cons

Layers and layers of inexperienced, unqualified managers. Many individuals in top management positions for sales departments without any sales experience. Instead of actually generating new business, managers are padding numbers and leads to pacify those in executive positions. No dynamic managers, just robots following orders. Gossip and politics is rampant.

1.0
Aug 5, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

BEST hike and remuneration Policies are transparent If you are in the good books of Business Partners,say,your life is full of gold Time passes so quick in hsbc.....Less work and more talks and recreational activities. The Relationship HR managers are prompt and formalities are done in professional system.

Cons

The Managers, especially , not direct but the functional head,its disgusting to let you know,they play all blame game, No New Projects...Roll over with the same throughout. Incorrigible and reluctant Manager...they don't want new projects to be migrated with the lame excuse of NO sufficient desk..

2.0
Jul 31, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

I found that HSBC paid more handsomely than other global banks in the same tier. When I worked there, they were more liberal with employee expenses than other comparable banks.

Cons

Be prepared to be micromanaged. It is corporate culture at it's worst, don't know if that stems from being a British bank or just weak management. It seemed like it was a company comprised of all middle management types, not a ton of all stars there, not very inspiring. The culture predicates you must look out for yourself, even if it's at the expense of a colleague. There is a lot of button pushing. At times, I felt like management was more concerned about completing menial activity tracking tasks as opposed to actually generating revenue. You have a role and you are expected to only act within said role. There is no allowance for creativity, thinking outside the box, or taking an entrepreneurial role to your job. Very rigid structure, everybody just tries to manage up, which is ironic bc everybody seems to be a low level manager. People there work scared. Major disconnect between the various divisions of the bank.

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