HSBC reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(28,272 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 28,272 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
3.0
Sep 26, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- Great team camaraderie --- multicultured work environment, different festivities are celebrated. - Inclusive policy from the top --- LGBT friendly (at least at the policy level). - Managers do review monthly reviews to check in on team members performance and give advice and guidance where necessary. - Performance based bonus and salary increment --- you perform well, you get the reward. - Most teams allow flexi work hours arrangement when required.

Cons

- Still using outdated bell curve performance appraisal --- no matter how hardworking everyone is, someone WILL BE GETTING a bad appraisal. - Because of this, managers forced to defend your team when necessary. - Never-ending cost cutting exercise disguised as organizational restructure resulting in increasing offshoring works makes everyone demoralized. - Used to give decent bonus and increment - Most people expected to work extra hours regardless of role.

1.0
Sep 1, 2018

How to get fired in a few months

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Relatively high salary More holidays than anyone else Good mortgage

Cons

I would not recommend my worst enemy to join HSBC: they offer you pretty nice benefits when you join, but they fire very easily.

3.0
Aug 15, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Quite good paid and very good benefit Work From Home Flexible Working Hours

Cons

Lack of promotion chance Lack of recognition they deserve No work life balance Tendency to adopt punishment than appreciation No job security

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