Frustrating place to work - Anonymous employee HSBC Employee Review

1.0
12 Dec 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is fairly decent. The company offered nice benefits which were very competitive compared to other similar companies. Time off was also good.

Cons

Too big in many ways so one group often wasn't in sync with another regarding company objectives. Company demanded a lot and you were subject to a lot of lunch time meetings and late meetings past 5pm. Too many emails, sametime messages, and meetings which interfered getting work done during the day. Too much red tape. The business often did not know their own business.

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