Credit Suisse Employee Reviews

alot of restructuring that had happened prior and during the acquisition. work life balance can be better. salary is relatively okay. was initially wfh, but got called back to the office 4 days to 1 wfh.

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Great Summer Internship

Summer Analyst, Chief Risk Officer IT (Former Employee) - Singapore, S00 - August 18, 2014

Great experience for anyone who are still at school to understand the banking IT industry

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CS Regional team

Sr. System administrator - UNIX L3 Support (Former Employee) - Singapore, S00 - July 2, 2014

I was part of production support and L3 regional team, Having complete access all the Unix based technologies including VMware tool was fun. which gave more responsibility and explore new solutions & reliable solutions. Working as a team on engineering issues provide me to understand the technology in deep

Pros

Highly motivated team gave deep technical exposure

Cons

Support require any time

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Challenging and exciting place to work

IT Consultant/ Clearvision SME (Former Employee) - Singapore, S00 - June 18, 2014

As APAC lead, acted as escalation point for change requests and client concerns and worked closely with department team leads to prioritize issues and coordinate troubleshooting efforts

Pros

great team

Cons

no carrier growth

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Productive atmosphere

contractor (Current Employee) - Singapore, S00 - June 13, 2014

-> Working as a senior BA in Dodd Frank Reg Reform program -> Responsible for collecting the requirements from Users, various forums (ISDA etc.,) and regulatory requirements, Accountable for Functional specification preparation using use cases ->Responsible for SIT,UAT and maintaining the SDLC -> Expericne in Multiple Asset classes in the financial domain ->have a good experienced global team and there is lot to learn

Pros

Good working ennvironment if you are self motivated for learning

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A challenging and exciting place to work

Major Incident Manager (Former Employee) - Singapore - May 7, 2014

In this role I was responsible for the execution and governance of the Major Incident Management process for APAC and EMEA. Technically I was closely involved with and cross-trained in all areas Credit Suisse’s IT production environment. I was responsible for developing a new bespoke tool for the recording and reporting of Major Incidents. I produced work-flow trend analysis reports for regular distribution to a wide and senior audience.

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A sure-shot career killer if you aren't ready to be a 24x7 slave

Ex-Consultant (Former Employee) - Singapore - April 20, 2014

Worst work culture I've seen in my decade long career. Not sure about other locations but in Singapore it was pathetic. Lots and lots of work, extra hours, weekend-work, holiday-work, no holidays. No family/social life. Leaving office 'on time' is called 'leaving early'. You absolutely have to spend 13-14 hours on an average on a daily basis. If you ever leave office once in a blue moon at the official shift-end time, you attract weird glances and unfavorable comments often. And all this for no returns or rewards. People who joined earlier and have reached high positions now simply don't want others to grow so that their positions remain secured. They are totally against allowing people to grow. Due to this, People working their guts out for years remain stranded at the same position with no increase in salary year after year. I wasted invaluable 4 years of my career here, in CS Singapore. To survive here, you must have a godfather or a godmother who will pull you along every time he/she moves up. Otherwise, life here is like serving a sentence. One good thing that's come out in my favour after I've worked with them is, if I've survived in PTG at CS Singapore, I can survive anywhere. I've worked with a couple of other large firms in similar projects after my tenure at CS and I absolutely found things like cakewalk. Had no insecurities or issues at all.

Pros

Military like work culture, teaching survival techniques.

Cons

Buttering one's godfather/godmother works, Pathetic work-life balance, slavery-like employment, carefully hand-picked anti-employee people run the show as managers (not all of them)...

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Prodcutive Place

Senior Oracle & ETL Developer, ShS IT (Current Employee) - Singapore, S00 - April 2, 2014

Subject matter expert in Opera DAL and its sub-systems; contributing to the design & delivery of key components of the CFO IT strategy, working in partnership with our delivery colleagues in London, New York & Singapore and our offshore vendor delivery team. - Reviewing and understanding business requirements and functional specification analysis. - Providing review and subject-matter-expert oversight to technical design documentation. - Providing review and subject-matter-expert oversight to unit test cases and scenarios. - Managing the offshore vendor delivery of versioned software components. - Providing troubleshooting support to large E2E test cycles and user queries. - Contributing to release notes and user documentation. - Participation in 3rd line support activities for the global production application suite. - Acting as a point of technology excellence to other developers.

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Global organisation going through continouos improvement

BusinessTransformation and Change Management Lead (Current Employee) - Singapore, S00 - January 21, 2014

Credit Suisse offer great opportunities for those who are interested being part of a fast growing and chaning organisation. It is a dynamic organisation where you can proactively (and it is expected) approach transformation programme and become involved to build your skills and competencies. Being involved in the development of the organisation offers great incentives in the sense of your profile, being involved in programmes, and building a strong network.

Pros

develop competencies, global exposure

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Experience at Credit Suisse

Asst. Vice President (Current Employee) - Singapore, S00 - November 20, 2013

Good working environment Learned a lot of Management Good leadership skills

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Investment Banking Operations Analyst (Former Employee) - Singapore - November 11, 2013

Fast paced environment that continues to challenge its employees after years of work.

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Good Learning Culture

AML Analyst (Current Employee) - One Raffles Link - July 22, 2013

Everyday the team is required to conduct client due diligence review of client population to ensure that the information maintained provides a comprehensive understanding of the client's profile and proposed transactional activity in accordance to local law and regulations and the Bank's policies. The type of checks and processes we performed for each account are similar but the scenarios and background might change the outcome of each case. From this project, it give me a greater insights into AML.

Pros

Strong team, Infinite learning opportunities

Cons

Tight timeline

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Stressful Work Environment but Manageable and Easy for Me

Test Manager (Current Employee) - Changi Business Park - June 30, 2013

A typical day at work is 90% meetings and 10% for doing the actual work. The meetings are mostly aimed just at status reporting and there is a tendency that same status will get reported for different meetings and to different individuals. Because of this it is common for people to stay late and on weekends to try to finish the majority of the work left out because of the meetings. I've learned in this company that sometimes we have to just gather our courage and leave our comfort zone. That is why I am actively looking for a new job because I feel that growth is no longer possible here. In short, my career has reached the end of the road here. The most enjoyable part of the job in Credit Suisse are the salary, shift allowance, and new office. Also, personally, I am happy working with my Singapore colleagues whom I've been working with since 2009. Our relationship has gone beyond just work and we are all friends now. The problem right now with Credit Suisse also is the fact that no one is sure about his/her career now. I personally have been promised promotions since 2009 but nothing has happened. In fact, since 2009 my rating has been AAA (best rating possible in CS). But even with me performing the career growth aspect never materialized.

Pros

salary, shift allowance

Cons

little career growth

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Very Good Management and its a fun place to work

Project Manager - Transformation (Current Employee) - Singapore - June 14, 2013

Very Good Management and its a fun place to work. Learnt a lot about the people management. It a diverse place and everybody is encouraged.

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Good company to work with

Software Consultant (Current Employee) - Singapore - May 21, 2013

Good company to work with. Good work environment. Management approachable. Environment friendly and transparent. Well cultured.

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About the Company.

AVP, Solution Delivery - Technical/Functional lead (Current Employee) - Singapore, S00 - May 2, 2013

A good company to learn process oriented methodologies. Day to day job is to work on projects which are done to meet the internal bank needs. The business has areas which have to be addressed and the IT team works towards helping business satisfy client/company needs.

Pros

Training and the Corporate Structure is good.

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Not stable anymore

Business Objects Developer (Current Employee) - Singapore - April 25, 2013

Lots of Organizational restructuring & Offshoring Global organization

Cons

lots of organizational restructuring & offshoring

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Good company to work

Senior Consultant (Current Employee) - Singapore - February 25, 2013

Good company to work, good work life balance.Focus on Your Core CompetenciesOptimized Value CreationYour Risk under Control

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PMO Role

Project Management Office Manager (Former Employee) - Singapore - January 7, 2013

My role comprises of financial management, large scale program and/or project management, ensuring our portfolio is inline to the bank's strategy and governance is in place for tracking reporting and status of the multiple projects in our program.

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