HSBC reviews

I consider my pay to be low. The time-off policy is not overly restrictive, but it's an oddity to me in that you get x days off (depends on seniority) but if you're sick that counts as time off. So you're not supposed to take 100% of your time off as vacation, but rather leave a day or 2 "in the bank" just in case you get sick. The biggest con of HSBC Canada though is that there's no sense of urgency in anything and thus no sense of direction. To me it feels like I'm working with a gigantic blob of Jello. The mass kind of jiggles and moves in a direction that's roughly forward, but it's really slow going. And when you contribute your bit, the mass just kind of jiggles some more without really feeling like there's forward momentum. Without a sense of urgency, everything just slows down as people ease up. So we end up doing stupid things like creating spreadsheets which then need to be manually copied to Powerpoint which then gets emailed out as an update which no one really pays attention to anyway. But hey - we have a deck and somehow that's perceived as being a Good Thing. People development does not seem to be a priority either. As a new hire I was thrown 20 or so web-based trainings (which taught me nothing new really) and I got to attend a couple of conference call / trainings. Other than that, I find I need to rely on my own initiative to learn how stuff really works at HSBC and who does what. There is essentially no formal training for on boarding a new employee and as far as I can tell, no policy for internal training let alone external third-party training courses. I suppose if I build a case and ask I might be allowed to attend some course somewhere, but it's up to me and my initiative. I don't think HSBC will proactively initiate training unless it's another web-based compliance thing.

- Very easy to maintain your job if you are "smart" enough, just play with them, when everybody is fighting for their tasks, you can only cost 2 hours to finish the job for the whole week, then pretend hard working - Very easy to deal with the managers or whoever above your position, just play your role like in a drama, say what they think you should say, do what look smart but actually stupid as management suggested. - Very easy to feel proud if you are in IT department, as they are using systems from Jurassic Period, if you know a bit Database, or coding .NET ...just something very superficial, you may look like a HERO to them. - Very nice OLD employ will teach you get a long with managers, as they will be your reference in the future. - Very nice peers will strongly support you to find another job outside of the company when they think you are a danger one, who blocked their way up. - Very hi-tech management will provide you a blackberry to ring you up at 2 am and asks you to give a response in 20 mins without over time pay. - Very easy to avoid making any trouble at work, what you need to know is make things as big as you can, let as many as ppl to involve, they will fight with each other very quickly and eventually totally forget about who you are and what you have done, sometimes even yourself dont know who you are! - Very fair anonymous survey every year as all managers will 100% sure who gave them negative feedback.