HSBC

• No work.
• If you are not interested in technology and just want to survive in an industry as a manager/technical manager.
• Good technical architects who drive everything from onsite locations.
• Salary will be credited to your account on the 28th of each month.
• If you want to develop your political skills, then you will become a politician after 5 years at HSBC.
• Bus service.
• Great pantry service (a guy with a food trolley will walk through the floor twice a day).

• 0% technical growth.
• 0% development in Java; only support and maintenance projects.
• Some technical forums are banned here. They might ban Google in the future.
• Frameworks and technologies are too old. You are supposed to work on legacy things.
• Horrible politics. If you are good in politics, they will award you with a promotion.
• They have installed Sapience tool on every machine, which records your online and offline time. If you complete a task in 8 hours, then you are marked productive, and if you complete the very same task in 2 hours, then you are not productive. (HR and managers will tell you this tool is installed to improve the efficiency of employees... lol)
• No internet during the notice period.
• If you ask for better work, they will give you some IBM tool or production support.
• Hikes and promotions depend on your relations and your Sapience timings.
• No promotions and on-sites for senior positions.
• Food quality is horrible.
• No cubicles. Call center-type sitting arrangement. (Please don't join this company if you are a fresher; it will ruin your career.)

Great work. Keep it up. You are dragging everyone with you in this mess.