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
Feb 28, 2018

Information security

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Office is good. Good pay, allowance and medical benefit. Work life balance is achieved. You can choose to work from home.

Cons

1. Middle management sucks. Upper management just listen and believe what middle management says. 2. Middle management delegates all their work to working level staff. Even for those management work, they asks junior guys for assistance 3. From management perspective, working at SWIFT for long time means an expert in security. That’s why there is no improvement even though security team has been set up for few years. 4. Middle management only talks and talks without real deliveries. They emphasis talking and no conclusion coming out after a long time of talk. But upper management likes it! 5. Poor inventory, IAM, log and control mechanism. Middle management doesn’t address it even though junior staff can observe. 6. SWIFT encourages team transfer. But that’s disaster meaning that your senior can be someone without security knowledge.

2.0
Feb 3, 2019
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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.

3.0
Mar 19, 2019

Great environment for political games

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Pros

Environment meaning the park, the offices or the restaurants are great, and the advantages such as the Creche or the Sport Center

Cons

The reorganizations never ending, if you are not lucky and placed after some changes under a manager who doesn’t like you, start looking for another job immediately

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