SWIFT reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(105 total reviews)
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Javier Pérez-Tasso

56% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

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1.0
Sep 27, 2019

Avoid at any cost

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Competitive base salary and benefits. That’s the only con I can think of.

Cons

Lack of compliance. Sexual harassment and power harassment. No work life balance. Lack of resources. A night before the final interview I was contacted by one of interviewer via message app and was asked if I was single or seeing anyone. And it was directed by a hiring manager as they wanted to avoid female candidates who may potentially marry and take maternity leave in the future. When I learned the truth I confronted with the manager. He refused to answer my questions and told me resentfully that when women got married they cannot do overtime. He complained that I don’t do enough overtime until midnight. I reported this to HR and got retaliated. They have extended probation from 6 to 9 months without valid reason and my consent which is illegal in my country. When I refused to sign that letter HR and the immediate manager pushed me to submit resignation. I was also Power-harassed and bullied. All other reviews often complain about the quality of middle manager and HR. Indeed they are right.

2.0
Feb 3, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

not very demanding job so not much overtime work. perhaps because of its monopoly in the business of financial communication backbone. Good if you just want to wait for retirement there. health insurance is good.

Cons

Not competitive for MNC. Last time they only aim max 50% lower from the highest market salary. Now they increase to 70%-75% as I remember. Because people are leaving. "Social Justice" policies of HR on hiring. They aim diversity based on Quota of gender. Not based on Meritocracy. 50% male - 50% female. How about the other 75+ Gender?? They defy their own principle on hiring the best for the job. Well the term of the best itself can be manipulated though. Even for a hackathon, they consider a point on diversity. Well, how you gonna split coding task to a tester then... While the programmer can do the coding and testing easily. Don't know what you can expect for promotion then, especially for particular Gender, even though you perform above the other gender. One day I found a book about intercultural training things laying in the pantry. Seems like mandatory training for expat or managerial. You know, masculinity, femininity and that other stuff. I read it briefly, well yeah... They don't have the culture on linear promotion. If you want to get a promotion, easier to apply for another higher position in a different team. But they expect people to grow expertise?? How are you gonna grow expertise if you are required to jump up the team? Just to get enough salary raise. Because your salary is not linear with your expertise. But It's linear with your structural level. Different from people in BE as my former honest and open expat manager admitted it.

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