HSBC reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(28,315 total reviews)
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Georges Elhedery

69% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

HSBC has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 28,315 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 Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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28K reviews
3.0
Jun 20, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Colleagues are knowledgable and supportive but it depends on your work-group Offers opportunity to work in international locations Good work-life balance

Cons

Excessive involvement from London. Extremely centralized organization. Every small decision needs to be approved by 10-15 people before being executed. Most decisions are arbitrary. They wish to believe they are agile but they are clearly not. Follow age old processes and refuse to change with the times. People on the ground have no say and board room execs are completely cut off from realities.

1.0
Jun 16, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

End year bonus is great Lots of training Large infrastructure Segregation of duties

Cons

Bureaucracy hell Office politics worse than House of Cards Company culture formed around exploiting people

2.0
May 9, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

reasonable pay and conditions. Good place if you want to tick boxes. less so if you want to make a difference

Cons

bureaucratic and endless layers of mediocre management who sit around observing but not making decisions. very little opportunity for innovation

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