Vantaggi
I am an old timer with HSBC, with the bank for many years, I started as a fresh grad developer, moved in many teams and now work in IT in one of the business that the Bank want to grow. HSBC is always making change and senior managers always come and go. But the culture is always nice to it's employees and we know our objective.But things have changed badly recently.
Svantaggi
We had new CIO joining 2 years ago. This CIO has very strange strategy, IT should only do coding in low cost locations. They want to get rid of everyone and just keep developers in China. Previously, they can't implement this strategy because other managers and business can control and say no. But with the big reorganisation announced by CEO, a lot of change happening and CIO use the opportunity to fire all managers that ask questions. They are now hiring yes man, very inexperienced managers who can't oppose bad ideas. They have fired a lot of IT all over the world without reason or communication. Even in China, people are asked to leave and we don't know the reason. No one is giving us any plan or explanation. We have to submit code and we are checked on how much. Even senior team members who manage people have to do that. Instead of doing smart work, we spend time thinking how to increase code commitment and management spend time thinking what control to add to check us. I don't have time to guide my team anymore or work with my bosses and business to improve and bring ideas. We are very stressed to meet the targets. The culture is now fear. Anyone who doesn't know how to do development think that they are going to get fired. Who is going to talk to the business if we don't have project managers or business analysts or bosses that understand what the business wants and can explain to us. There is no motivation left even in China even if the strategy is to move all IT here. We don't want to be like robots doing development without brain. And we need other countries to collaborate to build good solutions for international business.