Let's start with recruitment:
- no details on the position
- calls from India
- once the offer has been sent to you, prepare receiving 15 emails a day for weeks, have a thousand different papers to print, sign, scan and send back within tight deadlines (if you don't own a printer, well, good luck)
- incompetent background check sub-contractor
- less than clear information about your starting date, where you should be, and who is your point of contact (guess what, there is none)
First week:
- no clear working station assigned
- internal platform to process timesheet, do trainings, admin & so on - not working for WEEKS
- exceptionally little training about your actual tasks
- inexisting HR
- HR will actually lose some of the papers they collect from you
The job itself:
- idiotic but that was to be expected so no surprise here
- inadequate tools: for a company specialized in "digitalization", well, have fun with the 300 spreasheets you'll work on
- time checkers everywhere
- constant changes of location within the building AND to other buildings at the other side of the city
Money & career
- no negotiation at the end of your trial period
- advancement is NOT based on performance at all
- you cannot apply for another position before at least 9 months (and for most it's actually 18 months)
- the only way you are getting a raise is when you change position. You will get the mighty advancement of 5%
- overtime is not approved depending on projects
- they may change you to night shift not because of business needs but because they lack space and need people to use the working stations during the day
Others:
- no transparency at all, nothing will be communicated, you will learn that you changed projects from someone from your team, but nothing is official
- all departments work with India. Needless to say it's a disaster.
- they will literally make money on your back
- huge corporation with unadapted trainings, absolutely no culture
-- I had outstanding stats, involvement in several projects, and I decided to leave anyway.
