HSBC reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(28,251 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 28,251 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
2.0
Oct 28, 2025

Disorganised HR, liars

Recommend
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Pros

Great staff benefits Decent working hours Not too much pressure

Cons

HR does not know what they are doing with their graduates. Why hire grads if you don't have any space for them in full-time positions or lie to them after they are hired?

2.0
Oct 14, 2025

Artificially limited opportunities

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Plenty of opportunities to learn / try new roles - if you want to stay at the same GCB level. Share save plan is good, helps to offset low wages.

Cons

Progression is becoming more and more difficult because the dinosaurs at the top don't like remote workers. People hired remotely during the pandemic are now being told they can never apply for any other role unless they are willing to relocate/pay for commuting to an office across the UK from them. Wages are not high enough to make the expense worth it, this seems to be a push to get remote workers to resign. Those who work remotely are explicitly told that they cannot apply for internal roles regardless of the reason they have been allowed to work from home (new parent / carer / disability discrimination??!). Huge focus on reducing UK headcount and expanding overseas. Constant restructuring - department name has changed 3 times since 2025 and I've lost count of heads of department who have come and gone.

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