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Standard Chartered Bank

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Standard Chartered Bank reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(11,017 total reviews)
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Bill Winters

78% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Standard Chartered Bank has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 11,017 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Standard Chartered Bank 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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11K reviews
2.0
Oct 4, 2013

Political, unrealistic expectations

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Pros

- Caring culture, active in community service - Opportunity to work with colleagues around the world

Cons

- Unrealistic expectations for the amount of resources provided, which means long hours, tough to meet targets and in-fighting between teams to secure more resources - Low levels of job security for junior staff. Management constantly cultivates a perception that you need to do more and that you are easily replacable - Reward and promotion is pretty much hit and miss, really depends if you have a line-manager that recognize your contributions (frequently not). In which case one needs to be aggressive enough to make their contributions known to management a level above which may upset your line-manager.

3.0
Sep 29, 2013

Political - lack of transparency

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Pros

Global, good benefits, generally collaborative

Cons

Disorganized, political, lack of transparency, unfocused

1.0
Sep 26, 2013

A wanna-be bank

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Pros

fairly good pay and thats about it.

Cons

This wanna-be bank has to attract talent by paying a notch above the others. Whilst its Wholesale bank was bearable until 2010 (Citibankers invasion), its Consumer bank (CB) is an oligarchy run by a handful of larger-than-life indians who protect each others back and show returns at all costs to a geriatric board sitting in the UK. Beware to all, this a venus fly-trap. You are welcome as long as you walk the party line and lick the boots of the indian boys club that run the show. It grew exponentially from 2007 onwards hiring: an army of local singaporean cheap labour to change different colour light-bulbs, a number of highly paid Aussies and undesirable leftovers (with a gift of the gab) from other banks. for senior staff, Ooce you fall for its salaries it is difficult to get out of the trap. I cannot total the number of headhunters who told me that I was lucky to get out after 3 years, otherwise I would be branded SCB - "Here of Foot" and no serious bank would consider me thereafter. Like Incredible India - inside it is everyday a working miracle.

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