BOCI Reviews

3.0

43% would recommend to a friend

(219 total reviews)

21% positive business outlook

BOCI has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 219 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The BOCI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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219 reviews
1.0
25 Aug 2022
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

It has a very Stable Working Environment.

Cons

1.Low Basic Salary for Analyst like $12,000. 2.No salary increment except for promotion time. So, you can expect you still get <$30,000 even if you are promoted to VP after long working period. (Usually the max. increment would be 1x%). 3.Promotion need to wait for at least 2 years to join the "waiting list" for all new comers (NOT a must for promotion after 2-3 years). 4.No career prospect (Seniors don't care about your career path), Just tell you to take a look in long run. 5.Many tedious projects or ad-hoc works unrelated to your job duties to welcome the senior management/Chinese management (Chinese proposal/essays), if you are not the guy handling the projects, then your bonus is expected to be at normal standard. (Higher bonus would be granted to those handling ad-hoc projects). 6.Bonus payment can defer to like December in next year. You can expect to lose a year bonus when you leave, no matter how long you work in BOCI. 7.Seniors don't give a shxt on you and unfavorable working environment especially for juniors.

2.0
31 Oct 2018

Bad HR

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

State owned company, so it has stable environment. Teammates are nice.

Cons

1. No salary review for the whole firm! That means, you will be stuck at what you get at the beginning for a few years. All other IBank companies I have worked for, always increase the salary on a annual basis except during financial crisis like 2k8 2. So much drama among different departments. People like to do their own job instead of getting the project done for the firm as a whole. 3. Inefficient management. Management creates the culture for point 2. 4. Technology infrastructure is very outdated compared to other investment banking firms.

1.0
5 Mar 2025

You would question yourselves

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Friendly colleagues are the only thing keeping this place from being a total nightmare

Cons

Welcome to a company where the clock matters more than the work. You can sit around doing nothing all day as long as you clock in and out on time, but god forbid you arrive a few minutes late. While other companies embrace remote work and flexibility, this place is stuck in the stone age. Promotions and raises aren't earned here, they're handed out based on favoritism. If you're on the wrong side of management, expect endless work, the only reward you can get is more workload. Priorities here? Not the company, not efficiency -just whatever makes their department (or themselves) feel good

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