SWIFT reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(709 total reviews)
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Javier Pérez-Tasso

56% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

SWIFT has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 709 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SWIFT employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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709 reviews
2.0
Jul 15, 2021

Average Work Place

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Pros

Good Benefits - Company phones - Good medical coverage - Work life balance

Cons

- Used to be a great working place until agile transformation took place. - Lack of direction from management. Agile transformation was deemed successful by management. But more people left after agile transformation in some tribes, despite pandemic. - Visibility is above everything. Management only appreciates those who are good at showcasing and talking. Many hardworking and talented people left because of this. - Agile is supposed to break the silos but in fact more silos created, thanks to the bad agile tribe setup. Lack of cohesion among squads within the same tribe. - More meetings after agile transformation, yet no tangible output produced. - Some agile coaches do not have software development or project management experiences, only have theoretical knowledge of agile and blindly chasing after the numbers. - Lack of career growth opportunities especially after agile transformation. It's a fact and yet management is still trying to deny it. Another cause of poor employee retention.

1.0
Mar 29, 2019

I'm looking for my way out ASAP.

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Pros

There is no direct competitor so the company has the monopoly thus very stable in terms of earnings. The list of projects pending is so long as you could be book for a year straight. Lots of learning opportunities.

Cons

Upper management are mostly white and executives from Belgium are really young and don't have much experience on how to run their designated units. HR are useless they only know how to check if you are fully utilise and you filled up all your time for each project. The only training available is the web base training. They dont have a time to send you for proper training because there is a large backlog of projects. We have a very slow internet connection which is really frustrating. And our test servers in Malaysia is really slow to the point of unusable. For a company this big where there is no proper test beds then it is a disaster waiting to happen. Working here is very frustrating as people don't help each other. We are all too busy and we have our own deadline to meet. If you are a newcomer then good luck the politics inside the company is the worse I've ever seen. I'm running out the door after I finish my project. My recommendation avoid at all cost regardless how much they offer its not worth it.

1.0
Jan 9, 2018

Incompetent Leadership in KL office

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Pros

Good tools, amazing office environment, great work/life balance as people does not really care about timelines as all work and projects are internal stakeholders.

Cons

The company has too much legacy brought to the newly setup office in Malaysia. They tend to park expats from HQ on key positions locally where they are not fit to do so or with zero experience. The management team are lack of management skill set as they either put someone from home or hiring blindly locally. The turnover in the entire KL office is at least 40% annually and that shows major issue in the management team. Managers are more interested to look good rather than fixing real problems. Also a note to HR, sending your managers for constant management training does not make them any better. Spend more time recruiting the right leaders or at least with valid experience towards the job.

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