HSBC reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(28,234 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 28,234 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
4.0
Nov 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible work schedule with the ability to work at home. Really open to allowing you to explore other departments in order to learn the business as a whole. Great pay

Cons

Too much red tape to cut through with everything single project or request.

1.0
Nov 7, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work/life balance, it does not have a culture for long hours or pressure to work late/weekends. Head office has great facilities.

Cons

The company is completely dis-jointed. HR is particularly bad, each different business area has a completely different HR policy with many areas reporting to management in different countries. There appears to be no career progression path, I have seen many excellent managers leave through frustration of not being able to reward their staff. There is NO system in place for reward or recognition of achievement which means talented, ambitious staff have no choice but to leave to progress.

2.0
Nov 7, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary is not bad however, the amount of hours you work to earn that salary is excesive. They have a work from home program but you will rarely ever get to take advantage of it. In nine months is was only able to work from home a total of ten times. Even though I was signed up to work from home for two days a week.

Cons

Long hours, lack of communication between senior management and managers. Work life balance is almost non-existent. Their IT support is horrible at its best.

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