Pros
Work culture is fun, you meet people from all over the world, rooftop open bars in the building, okay benefits package
Cons
- meritocracy is not-existent. people are promoted based on politics and positions are reserved to traineeship graduates - salary raises are only connected to promotions and lateral moves, which encourages an ultra-competitive environment including infighting inside the teams for visibility, normalizing overtimes and work-life inbalance, promoting overachievement and belittling people who just want to work 9-5 and not overperform. - you have 25 y.o. kids fresh out of elite universities and fancy schools thrown into mgmt positions and deciding the fate of older and more experienced employees, just because they graduated from FTL program, and their rent is paid by the company! ofc if you are over 40, have a family or live outside of Prague you cannot be part of the social circus and your image will suffer as a result. it's like college but in suits - but there are "merit" increases which consist in a measly 5% despite inflation in ČR being as high as 18%! - higher management acts passive aggressive when confronted about issues and literally replies "you can leave, it's not a company for everyone" in all-PRG Zoom meetings.... they even disabled Q&A sessions out of shame after this - oligarchic management style looking only at KPI numbers, cutting positions overnight and eliminating the word "people" from "people management" - operational teams are wildly understaffed and rely on interns and other temp workers to meet the demand for extra workload in peak season. senior team members "experts" who need to take time to train them have to do the same every 3-6 months and only get a pat on the back and a copypaste recognition speech as a reward. ofc processes suffer a lot from this and employees need to face 9-10 hours shift every day but as long as the higher ups get their bonus everything is fine. - salaries are so bad that dozens of people leave every month, including specialized emplyees, think robotics and data analyst profiles. ABI is being outcompeted by every single other company in the Prague and is unable to retain talent so good luck onboarding new people every 3-6 months only to see them leave after 3-6 months again for the same job and +50% money! - growth opportunities are good until you get to senior-expert level, then your options become very limited. you either become a supervisor by shouting chants and mottos in public meetings or you stagnate forever since there is not a big choice of non-leadership roles. or you get another job in other countries like Belgium/Germany/UK (which is a surefire way for expats from such countries to return to their home) - the difference in workload and meritocracy between departments is huge, you have one floor where people are in the office until 7PM every day without getting promoted for years and another where people do home office from Spain the entire summer and have quicker promotion path. in one department you enter as a Senior Specialist but in another you may enter as an Expert (better contract/pay) despite doing the same tasks only with different stakeholders?!
