HSBC reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(28,332 total reviews)
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69% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

HSBC has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 28,332 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 Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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28K reviews
4.0
Jan 4, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Recognized experience in the field 2. Supportive Senior Management 3. Assigned peer help upon landing the office 4. Opportunities to transfer internally and across departments 5. Tight communications with senior departments, regular skip-level interactions

Cons

1. Colleagues create small groups 2. Long hours sometimes 3. Mandatory, excessive company team building/social events 4. Education background less important than experience

3.0
Dec 4, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very global opportunities, supportive culture, comprehensive training program. Good platform for collaboration between different divisions. good internal mobility. nice people

Cons

Not very challenging. People might not be the most motivated, driven you have come across at other banks. however, everyone is very supportive of your progress.

5.0
Nov 3, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice Work Highly ethical and established processes Very good work life balance. Gets challengeing tasks and the work is admired.

Cons

As the global economy is melting down , the same has afffected GLT also. There are lot of cost cutting drives but it has managed to give good enough increments.

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