Used to be great - Anonymous employee HSBC Employee Review

1.0
Oct 27, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Ability for remote work, some flexibility in actual hours worked, excellent benefits

Cons

Management pays lip service but doesn't follow through; work/life balance is a joke when you are expected to attend conference calls with people on the other side of the globe with no consideration given to what time it is for you. Have consistently been praised for quality of work, but that is not reflected in salary increase or bonus - only in piles of work being added to my plate. So much bureaucracy you spend more time on governance/documentation than you do on your actual job responsibilities.

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