HSBC Canada Reviews

Current Employee – been working at HSBC Canada full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – + Depending on your team you can choose your hours and work remotely.
+ Sicks days, Study Days and Holidays are all bundled so if you don't get sick often or need to study you get a lot of holidays.
+ Free banking, discounted loans, stock trades, currency exchange and mortgages. discounted mortgages makes a big difference. Banking perks for an IT job is quite nice.
+ Employee Stock savings plan
+ RRSP matching with limit
+ Flexible health benefits, given credits to use for 100% if you don't need much or you can use them buy 30%/70%/90% coverage plans with it.
+ Beautiful building, small gym and amenities
+ Work remotely from home or very remotely from an office in another country
+ Huge Yearly Cash Bonuses for top performers, you get what you put in. Huge as in from below average IT pay to above average IT pay.
+ Global and Diverse leading very interesting work, different rules in different countries (also a con)
+ Huge company can find almost any type of role meaning lots of opportunities, just get chummy with the right folk

Cons – - Lots of senior management changes and direction changes
- Need to be self driven as direction isn't always there
- Big and Slow, can't move without stepping on someone's toes
- Bureaucracy!
- The base pay is better than most business jobs but worse than IT jobs. Which is ok because the work isn't like most iT firms, it's mixed between IT and Business.
- Age group average is high
- Coworkers lack passion and a tad resistant to change. Some even make you wonder why they still have their jobs.
- Global and Diverse leading very interesting work, too many rules in too many different countries!

Advice to Senior Management – Keep things fresh, Continuous improvement, More young people, Leave room for creativity, Get to know your employees and their potential, Stand your ground, protect your employees so they would WANT to work hard instead of trying to MAKE them work hard

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at HSBC Canada full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Dealing with clients . Supervising stafff. Get to be involved in ways that improve life outcomes doing both of these.

Cons – Doing the job right always can be a downer when company is looking for ratio increes when there is not much room left to improve.

Advice to Senior Management – Instead of accross the board campaigns inividual branch analysis should yield realistic goal to office where it is at and where it should be.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at HSBC Canada part-time for less than a year

Pros – the benefit are not fair for everyone work in HSBC

Cons – People are so friendly, and work very hard !

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at HSBC Canada full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Senior leaders driven to do the right thing. Opportunities to work internationally

Cons – Middle management lacking holistic vision of senior leaders.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on your middle management becoming good managers of human capital.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at HSBC Canada full-time for more than a year

Pros – Positive and supportive attitude towards employees

Cons – I have encountered an unexpected downsizing

Advice to Senior Management – Develop better system of employee promotion within the organization

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at HSBC Canada full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good training, good relocation opportunities for those who wants to move around.

Cons – Complications in politics with senior managements, unfairness with staff during job evaluation.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at HSBC Canada full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Talented coworkers led to good cross training opportunities
 - Lots of resources available to assist in completing projects
 - Good management structure

Cons – There were not really many cons of working here. Sometimes the size of the company gave a feeling of inefficiency but once you adjust to the fact that things might move a bit slower because of this it wasn't a problem.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at HSBC Canada full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Ability to work remotely, diverse culture.

Cons – A top heavy management structure exists

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at HSBC Canada

Pros – great opportunity for networking and international mobility, senior management team is very approachable and willing to help

Cons – corporate hierarchy, layers of management creates the office politics

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at HSBC Canada

Pros – got lots to learn, especially the sales position. very challenging position.

Cons – sales target is impossible to achieve. pay is relatively low compare to our workload.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend