Société Générale Employee Reviews

Société générale tend to offer lower salaries than its peers and by that politic of low wages doesn’t encourage skilled and talented people to stay in the company. The bank just train peoples for a few years and then just let them go by not offering competitive salary. On the other hand lots of people enjoy SG for its good working environment.

Pros

Good working environment

Cons

Low salary (compared to market), treats trainees like spare, no gym nor discount in nearby gym

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Worst place ever

Trader (Former Employee) - London, Greater London - 20 September 2023

Only politics, not performance, if you’re good at building political relationships you’ll do well, if not then just choose another company and you’ll be better

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Insights into Société Générale

Based on 22 survey responses

What people like

Time and location flexibility
Ability to meet personal goals
Inclusive work environment

Productivité and fun work place environment.

Marketing Agent (Former Employee) - Limbe/Southwest - 7 October 2022

Productive, collaborative and fun work place. My senior colleagues where able to guide me and make the environment more comfortable which made me always reaching my target.

Pros

Free lunches

Cons

Long hours

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Amazing work culture, good hours

Intern (Former Employee) - London, Greater London - 13 September 2022

Great work life balance, good culture all around the firmGood balance of competitiveness while not having too much of a cut throat culture. Supporting colleagues and good senior management

Pros

Work life balance, management, helpful

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20 years behind 2022

Project Manager (Former Employee) - Bristol, Bristol - 23 March 2022

Behind the times. If you're male then perfect. Have a degree but no work experience, perfect. Upper class, perfect. Have tattoos or piercings , don't bother

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Service Desk Administrator/Floor Host (Current Employee) - Canary Wharf, Greater London - 13 March 2022

Amazing company. Opportunity to progress, management skills are over impressive and the work culture is excellent. Salary is very enticing and very happy working for this company

Pros

Progression

Cons

Nonr

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productive and balanced workplace

KYC Review Analyst (Current Employee) - London - 20 December 2020

good work life balance. good salaray and benefits. other than work they have lots of activities throughout the year to keep employees happy and motivated

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Disapointing; cost cutting culture. Not a growth area. Offshore IT Dev to India ASAP

Consultant (Former Employee) - London - 26 November 2020

Disappointing; cost cutting culture. Not a growth area. Offshore IT Dev to India ASAPThe competent management, IT Dev & BA's have all been let go in the last 18 months in the UK

Pros

None

Cons

Consider alternative sources of employment

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Productive

Client Onboarding Specialist (Current Employee) - London - 10 November 2020

Good knowledge Nice people Opportunity to move abroad and internally Travel Culture Good networking Client facing roles Good company benefits and medical care

Pros

Company benefits

Cons

Long hours

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Good culture and working atmosphere

Business Analyst (Former Employee) - London - 9 June 2020

I enjoyed working here as the culture is very welcoming and friendly. It also had a good working atmosphere and a lot of the people socialised outside of work.

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Trainee - Risk Management

London

4 days ago

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London

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Trainee - Trader Assistant

London

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Trainee - Chief Administrative Officer

London

4 days ago

Trainee - Quantitative Research Analyst

London

30+ days ago

Productive, team and fun workplace

Business Analyst (Former Employee) - Liverpool Street Station, Greater London - 29 May 2020

Very nice organization to work with. I worked within the structured finance group. The role involved working as a Business analyst and also taking the added responsibility of Project Management. The manager was very nice and helpful.

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Nice working environment

Legal Advisor (Current Employee) - London, Greater London - 10 May 2020

Great colleagues, stressful at times due to lack of knowledge within other teams that you rely on. Difficult processes to follow to complete simple tasks means work progresses slowly. You do feel appreciated and senior management send good messages and seem to value the staff.

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I would like to work in different fields then Security.

Security officer (Current Employee) - Canary Wharf, Greater London - 7 March 2020

actually I am a subcontractor for societe Generale, I am employee of ISS Security company. so company itself is very good but I would like to work in different fields rather then Security. Thank you,

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Productive + fun place to work

Personal Assistant (Current Employee) - London, Greater London - 19 February 2020

Brand new building in canary wharf a plus but location not great for my commute. on the whole it is a well paid job and a diverse culture which is forward thinking.

Pros

Free fruit and refreshments

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Interactive and supportive place to work

Group Head of Tax (Current Employee) - London - 26 January 2020

SocGen is a great place to work. Your colleagues are supportive, there is no blaming culture and you feel part of a great family. Management is supportive and approachable, and they do recognise good work. The workplace culture is to do as much as you can with the minimal resources possible. There is a huge constrain on expenses and costs. People are super nice and the French management style is part of the charm to work for SocGen.

Pros

Full support on training and career development. Great Benefits programme.

Cons

Work/Life balance, very long hours and reduced staff

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Relaxed but focused environment

Financial Crime Trainee (Current Employee) - London, Greater London - 14 January 2020

Fairly relaxed in my department but times when focus and a high degree of seriousness is required. Very nice office and a focus on social contract and flexible working which is very good. People are nice and willing to share information.

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Productive and fun

Work Experience (Former Employee) - London, Greater London - 12 January 2020

Competitive and stressful but a good environment to work. You feel like a team with your colleagues as you all work together to achieve the best you can for the company

Pros

Free lunches

Cons

Long hours

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No career growth

Global Markets (Current Employee) - London - 9 January 2020

Very poor development of junior staff who are all on short-term temporary contracts. Hence, salaries are also low. Both middle and senior management is very weak, but good at playing politics. Extremely bureaucratic and will shut down any ideas to change existing procedures. Toxic

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Not competitive

none (Former Employee) - Tower Hill Station - 29 November 2019

Pure French culture and no room for career development. It’s not a good place very experienced people who have ambition. On this basis, I won’t recommend this bank to anyone

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Excelente compañía

Recepcionista del banco de inversion privado frances en Londres (Former Employee) - Londres - 2 November 2019

Una Compañía excelente para la cual trabajar y pertenecer El trato al personal y las opciones de desarrollarse y promoción dentro de la empresa son muy óptimas

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Relaxed environment

(SGEF) - Head of Office Equipment Channel (Current Employee) - Richmond upon Thames, Greater London - 28 October 2019

It was a great business with nice people, however they are a little rudderless with their strategy. They started to business development with my new position and then after four years decided to close due to head office restrictions.

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