HSBC reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(28,243 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 28,243 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 1, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

big company with big company benefits. Slow to make redundent and lots of lifers

Cons

can be very large and not communicative enough. senior management not the brightest you will meet and a lot of them rose throgh the ranks due to time rather than smarts. bonuses are often small compared to other banks and so are salaries, often 2nd quartile compared to other banks

4.0
Apr 29, 2009

Enjoyed it, good benefits, but can be demanding

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits and fast paced. Lots of different opportunities.

Cons

Can be demanding at times. Process restricting change. De-centralized and communication gaps.

2.0
Apr 28, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits package and compensation is pretty good.

Cons

For a seasonal senior software engineer it's frustrating to see how relatively simple projects take forever to implement. New technologies are not welcomed and outsourcing has been a big issue affecting quality of the products, time to market and knowledge base inside of the company. Usage of homegrown frameworks instead of industry widely adopted ones makes it very difficult to use local work force because of the long learning curve locking the company even further into using outsourcing services. Another serious issue is that managers are switched around every year and it discourages some of them from trying to solve difficult issues.

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