Great company and people, bad management - Anonymous employee HSBC Employee Review

2.0
Oct 28, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Wonderful people, great benefits, lots of days holiday, great onsite facilities

Cons

Incredibly heirarchical, lots of red tape, bad communication and management, poor leadership, culture is very aggressive. Work life balance is almost non-existent, and certainly not encouraged.

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