HSBC reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(28,298 total reviews)
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Georges Elhedery

69% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

HSBC has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 28,298 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
1.0
Jun 16, 2021
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

- Global exposure and scope of projects - HSBC University

Cons

- Heavily bureaucratic, constant restructuring. - Siloed and very negative working culture. - Maternity / paternity leave will impact career negatively. - Wastes resources, line management lacking direction. - Vast majority of employees have only worked for HSBC (can be +/-). - Cumbersome and slow moving, size of organisation gets in its way. - Behind the times in terms of marketing aptitude / experimentation. - Extensively reliant on external agencies to do bulk of work which limits employee scope to project management. - Incredibly poor line management. - Poor progression opportunities.

3.0
May 21, 2021

Great People - LONG Days Expected

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great co-workers, overall competitive pay

Cons

Long hours are the norm - runs way too lean to truly change anything, everyone becomes a keeps the light engineer, innovation often starts with exco support but once it grows, its too much and innovation goes out the window due to the time to keep the lights on.

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