HSBC

Good facilities, indoor dining room, renowned company.

Low job stability, especially if you are in outsourcing. Every December, expect to be on edge about whether you will still have a job.

The use of tools like JIRA is a joke, as they only want you to enter tasks so that the charts look good to the bosses. Not to mention that they can't agree on how to use it, and every couple of weeks there's a new meeting to change things.

Lots of unpaid overtime work is expected. The stress is palpable, as projects are behind schedule, but nobody likes to be the bearer of bad news. So, management is told that everything is fine, and the pressure against the clock to fix problems falls on the developers. Even when raising your hand and saying that something is impossible to deliver within a certain timeframe, the bosses just ask you: "What do you need for it to be delivered?". The answer "more time" is never what they want.

Paguen adecuadamente las horas extra, o no tengan horas extra y punto. Su personal tiene vida fuera de la oficina.