Worst experience ever - Software Engineer Continental Employee Review

1.0
Oct 13, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Free food, drink, snacks 2. Long PTO

Cons

1. Really cheap company. Because this company is an automobile company. Then control cost is the first thing they think. Then when they try to hire somebody. They want to pay the candidate salary below industry level, even lower than your salary now lol. And they will give you really variety confusing benefits that make you think you'll earn more in final. That's fake. Never trust them. 2. Vague goals. At beginning, they open a division called intelligent transpiration system (ITS) as a start up without any ideas. But they think they can open a billion business because they have a really large base company in the world. But the reality is that base company becomes real obstacle in your regular life. For example, when you try to use some cloud service as in other company. The engineer can choose any cloud server they want to (AWS GC etc.) But in this magic company, you have to write a report that explains why you need AWS rather than other cloud provider to the a department. They will take 2 months (even longer) to decide if this is right. Even a USB cable. You cannot buy it directly. But the base company always wants this division has more and more revenue. Then the management fake everything. 3. They only hire politician in their management team. Your boss only care about if he can pass the review. And if he cannot pass the review, then you will become the unlucky guy. My ever two old co-workers, they just left the college as a new college grad engineer. But they left company, cause they don't have enough performance after they join team 4 or 5 months. And they almost didn't get any tutoring and help when they were in the team. When one of that coworkers find a new job, he even told me, he was really afraid to ask questions in new team. And his new teammates cannot understand why he is so shame to ask questions lol. 4. Bad culture. Because this is a fake start up. Everybody's work will not influence their final salary. Then there is no co-work, no communication in the team. No body knows how to compromise in the work. And the most interesting thing that I cannot understand is there is almost no benefit to fight in work. But there is huge amount politics fights in team.

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Continental Response
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We’re sorry to hear your experience at Continental wasn’t ideal. Regarding compensation, we believe in a pay for performance structure and encourage all our employees to contact their managers or local HR if they ever feel undervalued. We would like to connect with you to learn more about your experience. You can contact us directly at careers@conti-na.com Best of luck with your future endeavors, Continental Human Relations

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