HSBC reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(28,269 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 28,269 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
2.0
May 18, 2023

Company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Hybrid. Nice, new office environment.

Cons

Acquired Axa recently but the integration is a mess. The way they work here: one task, at least 5 more steps to achieve it. People just following all these steps but not questioning if it is efficient.

1.0
Apr 29, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Well known name -opportunities for international travel

Cons

- do not joint HSBC if you are a capable, talented, independent minded person. The sort of person who thrives at HSBC are those who are content to follow orders/rules/policies/instructions mindlessly and religiously. This results in swathes of clones without any creativity or talent. - since HSBC has an extremely risk adverse culture, every role is duplicated (at least) so you end up fighting and being forced to play politics to evidence your value versus the other people(s) who have the duplicate of your role. -often where there is a knotty issue internally, they will just hire an external hire to fix it, rather than fix the issue themselves. That is because all the “lifers” as they call themselves have too much as stake to actually make any difficult decisions so they hire an external “newbie” and make it their problem, then act as if that newbie is stupid for not being able to fix the issue (which is squally due to lifer personalities. - the culture breeds such risk as version that people become scared of their own shadow. - very few “leaders” care one iota about anyone in their team. They will posture and say / pretend they do, but will throw anyone underneath them under the bus without a second thought. -the words “throw under the bus” is used daily or even hourly to describe how to sell a colleague out in another team in order to get some political advantage. This gives an idea of how rotten the culture is

3.0
Apr 28, 2023

Company stability

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits and work life balance opportunities

Cons

Company US business not doing well massive lay offs and restructuring. Job stability is near non existent and company future is uncertain for US market amount all regions

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