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Waste your life

QA Manager
Current Employee
Has worked at HSBC for 20 years
October 23, 2013
Vancouver, British Columbia
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

A famous brand, that's it!

Cons

Very easy to maintain your job if you are "smart" enough. Just play with them. When everybody is fighting for their tasks, you can only cost 2 hours to finish the job for the whole week, then pretend to be hardworking.

Very easy to deal with the managers or whoever is above your position. Just play your role like in a drama. Say what they think you should say. Do what looks smart but is actually stupid as management suggested.

Very easy to feel proud if you are in the IT department, as they are using systems from the Jurassic Period. If you know a bit of database or coding .NET, just something very superficial, you may look like a hero to them.

Very nice old employees will teach you to get along with managers, as they will be your reference in the future.

Very nice peers will strongly support you to find another job outside of the company when they think you are a danger, one who blocked their way up.

Very hi-tech management will provide you a Blackberry to ring you up at 2 am and ask you to give a response in 20 minutes without overtime pay.

Very easy to avoid making any trouble at work. What you need to know is to make things as big as you can. Let as many people as possible get involved. They will fight with each other very quickly and eventually totally forget about who you are and what you have done. Sometimes even yourself don't know who you are!

Very fair anonymous surveys every year, as all managers will be 100% sure who gave them negative feedback.

Advice to Management

You guys are hopeless.

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