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 Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
May 9, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

reasonable pay and conditions. Good place if you want to tick boxes. less so if you want to make a difference

Cons

bureaucratic and endless layers of mediocre management who sit around observing but not making decisions. very little opportunity for innovation

1.0
Apr 29, 2020

Biased hostile work environment

Recommend
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Pros

Brand name, location of office

Cons

HSBC is a place where talent is valued less than lineage. Diversity is for name sake as the brand managers who are responsible for diversity will indulge in discriminatory behaviour themselves. Hostile work environment where people will be nice towards you only if you are a ) permanent staff b) level equal to them or higher. Basic civility or niceness cannot be expected of the staff. Too hostile an environment. A manager even told me " Work doesn't matter here much, relations do". And this was when I had received appreciation emails from teams all over the world for my work. Well, If a company doesn't value work when you are at the company to "work" in the first place, guess it is the wrong place to be !

1.0
Apr 26, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great share-save scheme however i think i invested at a great time.

Cons

At my time at hsbc i have felt the support for staff is disgraceful from management. Managers are trained to be slave masters as working there i heard “crack the whip” being used plenty of times. If you are unsure what to do managers will look down on you instead of help you. They never knew what was going on themselves. Managers will never listen to you especially in one to ones where its all about how im helping the managers look good. My time in branch muswell hill was run by a man who liked seeing His staff fail. He was pathetic. My manager at private bank and premier came across discriminating and like to try bully staff. My time at remediation dawson house was the worst with my manager not knowing what she was doing and was a Narcissist. There is a poor moral all over the company where people just care about themselves especially gcb4s and above. Im so glad to have left and found working for a smaller company was much better as we all support each-other and managers make quick changes when something is not working.

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