HSBC reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(28,238 total reviews)
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Georges Elhedery

69% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

HSBC has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 28,238 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
4.0
Aug 22, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Multipal opportunities to go progress globally Strong positioning (credit crunch has had a minimal impact on HSBC operations) Bonuses Flexibility with juggling personal / work life They have branches all over the world. Recognised brand

Cons

Communication between levels. Confused messages Sometimes you feel like a number

3.0
Aug 22, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible benefits are improving. Contributory pension scheme is going to improve hugely in 2008. But the non-contributory pension scheme is being stopped (but thats no surprise). Strong team ethic where employees tend to help other employees readily. Information sharing is done as a matter of course. Truly want to be best bank for customers.

Cons

Big focus on using offshore resources whether they are right for the particular IT project or task. It's just a numbers game to senior management so much so that some projects just have 10/20 offshore developers sat around doing nothing, but so they can hit the ratio targets. Far too much red tape and paperwork. Not enough freedom given to employees to use initiative and do what is right rather than blindly following managements poorly thoughout strategy.

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