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 Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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28K reviews
1.0
Oct 10, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get lots of "training" and "supervision" by unskilled managers (basically everyone above you is a manager), and all the managers play favourites. So if you want to work for a company that reminds you of how junior high or high school is like, by all means work for HSBC Canada. There's always water in the water cooler.

Cons

1) Almost minimum wage 2) Extremely long hours, and your lunch time can be sacrificed at the whim of a manager 3) Computer systems dating back to the 1980s. If you like working with multiple programs (last update is 1995) to do one simple transaction, then HSBC Canada is for you. 4) Inconveniently strict and illogical banking policies that will anger 99% of customers, and guess what, you have to explain to them why the bank cannot and will not give them their money when requested. 5) Your colleagues gossip and stab you in the back at the first chance to do so. 6) Your managers will try their best to make you look and feel dumb, as per junior high and high school tactics. 7) HSBC Canada treats their employees worse than new customers because we aren't allowed line of credit or loans of under $5k after over a year's experience, while newcomers to the country get $10k loan just because they work for an international auditing company?

1.0
Apr 23, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

HSBC Group is a great global company.

Cons

Card Services division in Salinas is awful. Morale is at absolute lowest. Group is not committed to card business in U.S. Senior Management cannot be trusted. Hypocrisy and bureaucracy at every turn. Only growth opportunities are if you are willing to go international

3.0
May 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very smart people, lots of global opportunities if that is compelling to you. Big company wields a lot of power with vendors so great benefits, decent vendor relationships where vendors are allowed to operate.

Cons

If you don't want to work globally, it will hamper your career progression and your opportunities. Not the best place for women, particularly those who want a work/life balance. These days, most of the growth and innovation is very limited to a couple of groups who are then pushing protocol and platforms out to other parts of the organization. If you want to be a trailbreaker, the opps are limited.

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