Standard Chartered Bank reviews

1) Culture - when I first joined I was new to the banking industry. I was somewhat surprised about the (relatively) gossipy and back-stabbing environment (I was based in the Singapore main office, where most senior management sit). The rumors and office gossip, even at the top levels, sometimes bordered on unprofessional 2) Towards the end, I did get the feeling that seniors would take short term decisions to maximize their annual bonuses, at the expense of lower level (cheaper) staff or of longer term capacity building. These may be common traits at the top levels of many international banks; I have no other data points to provide a comparative baseline.

The programme basically offers little on-job training and involves lots of time when you have to force sell people products. You will be doing what a salespeople do and that's the only thing you will be doing in this programme as well. Also, there's a lack of team spirit among colleagues; this could be due to the fact that most of the colleagues you will be working with are sales people in a branch who receive constant pressure from the branch manager and working in a team wouldn't help them in expanding their business so they are not encouraged to cooperate with one another, but rather work alone.