Good place to start a career, but quit it before you get exploited and brainwashed - Accounting Systems Expert Bayer Employee Review

2.0
Feb 5, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Great international environment, you'll meet lots of young people from every country you can imagine; you can learn and practice lots of foreign languages. Good opportunities to start a career with few experience in accounting (basicly they teach you the job, you learn how to use SAP and after a couple of years you can easily find a better job whenever you want) Very good training program, specially for skills not directly related to your own job but generally applicable to every professional environment Acceptable time flexibility and home office option Decent salaries, although difficult to raise Move and travel opportunities

Cons

Extremely high pressure as soon as you get minimum responsibilities. Overtime not paid, but if you want your job done at least at 10% you need to work every night, every weekend and every free minute of your life. Over bureaucratic processes - you spend more time on burocracy than on actual work Most people promoted to team leading or higher positions suffer brainwashing and become irrecognizable; it seems that being a bad person is a must to be promoted. Very disappointing quit process, you feel that nobody cares. Move and travel "opportunities" and night shift even if you are not willing to It's strictly forbidden to disagree, complain or have any other public demonstration of dissatisfaction on the workplace. If you complain in front of your colleagues, your boss will set up a meeting at his office to warn you "not to do that again".

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Cons

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Pros

Better pay than other companies My team - full of hardworking and knowledgable individuals.

Cons

Leadership/Management - can be micromanaging at times and not a lot of guidance/resources being provided. Projects can change swiftly at Bayer, and most of the times there's no background context given. Work/life balance - asked to be "flexible" with schedule for last-minute requests, then criticized for having life/responsibilities outside of work. Also, these last minute requests reflect poor planning on management. Lack of team morale - seems like it's all work and not a lot of play. Burnout culture and not a lot of incentives to perform better.

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