HSBC reviews

3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(28,232 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 28,232 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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3.0
Jan 31, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Good working facilities within premises. Good for individuals able to negotiate a substantial pay-hike, and looking for limited career growth.

Cons

The GSC entity is structured to be a cost-arbitrage center, and this is reflected in the policies and work culture. The roles are operational in nature, with creative and managerial aspects of a job being retained at onsite locations. I would recommend that folks take up opportunities here only if you do not intend to aim at career growth, and are ok with a tenure based career progression. HR policies unfortunately do not address internal conflicts of interest between teams and individuals. Prospective employees should expect to work within the constraints of redundant HR policies (esp. older employees and GSC senior management being driven by personal job retention).

2.0
Feb 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The other graduates on the programme are friendly and supportive

Cons

Limited opportunities for career development, limited scope for new challenges, below market compensation for a role when you are promoted to it internally rather than externally. Once you have completed the graduate programme and secured your first management position, the career development opportunites dry up.

1.0
Apr 23, 2019

Worst Experience!!

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work from home No micro management. Good for politicians, smart talkative , sales people, good for people who knows politics and have some domain or functional knowledge on banking and financial systems.

Cons

Worst env out here, No respect for employees skillset, they just need their work to be done. Dont go by their marketing terms on new technologies. ultimately you have to work on 10 years old legacy technology.over here only functional and domain knowledge matters. if you are equipped with cutting edge tech like Micro services , .NET core , Cloud , dev ops, data science , Machine learning etc then go home, there will be no respect for you. BUT you will be a superstar if you are equipped with domain or functional skillset. No career growth, seriously, who will ask these old technology and skill set on the current job market. They provide the worst facility, no parking for car after 9.30 Am , no parking for bike after 10 am. every morning you will end up on anxiety over parking.Cafeteria looks like a fish market in pune business bay and foods are super costly. they have over hiring and over firing based upon the project budget every year for which they have minimum desk allocation to the associates. you will end up sharing your desk or sitting on a populated area. you cant leave your personal belonging on your desk mistakenly also because it will stolen and admin desk dont have any answers to it.lifts are over crowded, sometimes you have to wait for 15 minutes.and on the top of that your managers wants you to come office on time. trust me , you will be end up with a exhausted day with all these scenarios which will impact you family life.

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