Pros
- A nice place to grow professionally especially if it's your first job or so - Lots of different technologies to play and work with - There are some good folks across the organization - Continuous learning programmes (although of an average quality) - Flexible schedule if you're lucky enough to land in a cool team -- or you know how to make your way in - Some accounts are mind-boggling as you will be working with global enterprises and top players across every industry - There are some amenities like fruits and (paid) massages, a music studio, kitchen, showers, etc. - Usually their facilities are great - Shops discounts (usually useless), paid gym - An *excellent* health care system, just wonderful - You can choose from several bank entities at the time of signing in or just keep with your own - Real possibilities of travel
Cons
- This company has nothing like their own culture, it's just a watered copy of what seems to be Google's or Facebook's culture -- just done the wrong way - On some sites (like the one I used to work in) the atmosphere is very little professional and way too much childish. People there seem to believe they were hired to play, shout and be noise all the day. They behave as if they were 5-years old, have brain damage and where playing on those inflatable castles full of balls - No matter how you strive to be excellent at what you do your work will likely not be recognized by decision-taking people outside your account. While you can gain your team respect and support your work will most likely go undetected for your colleagues in your Studio (not their fault, though) not to mention executives or people above your account's Project Manager. - Even if your Studio director acknowledges your work (I had the luck to have a very good one) they still will have their hands tied when the time to rise your salary comes - Salaries SUCKS - and I found that this happens across all the sites, everywhere and not only in my country - Nobody care about the work you do with the exception of yourself and maybe a bunch of teammates. This happens because a lot of Globant clients doesn't really care about their product but are instead focused on delivering products on schedule. If you care about your crafts look somewhere else to work - There are a lot of politics going on that 'mud the field' and make the company a less appealing place to work day after day - You're basically sold by ounce -- and that's why your views on most subjects doesn't count: a client comes, state what they want and the money they have; they are assured that whatever it is can be done. Then Globant's shopkeepers look at the shelf what they have available, assemble an odd team and put people to work. Just like that. - They care more about their selling speech and the image that they show to prospects than to truly act they way they speak - Sometimes you will have to work with cheap, underpowered or just plain obsolete hardware. I asked for months to have a second monitor -- the one I was assigned was a 17" square one - to no avail. That's because they don't invest in their own hardware stock but rather reuse what they have until it wear off. Only way to access the equipment you need is to have a contact somewhere in the higher ranks or make your account pay for it - The people that evaluates your performance usually doesn't even know of you. It's all done by spreadsheets and internal reports - If you are thinking to progress in the organization thanks to your hard work, creativity, commitment or just plain awesomeness think it twice: it is easier that you progress by just being there than to be promoted for your work - There are a LOT of 'corporate gnocchis' -- you know, the kind of people that you see through the day going from here to there with a cup in their hand or sitting watching YT videos. A quite lot of the people that worked on my plant were like that: they lied to their PM about the time need to accomplish any task then worked for two or maybe three hours a day to spend the rest of it playing at the ping-pong table or doing whatever else - Beware of taking care of your belongings: I've seen everything at my site, from people stealing others' food and beverages to stealing smartphones and even a laptop battery! That's the kind of people that were working on my floor when I left - I've had the privilege off working with some truly amazing people here -- most of them not working anymore at the time I step down (I worked at GLB for a year and a couple of months). That's because the company doesn't care about retaining the good elements maybe believing they will find as much as they want 'there outside'. They indeed have an amazing recruiting staff so I can see that in the short to medium term that dynamic may pay off -- but in the long run it's a death sentence, believe me. Nobody in his/her right mind that know someone else working in the company would even think to be part of it. On the other hand the people that stays are largely the ones that would find tough to find another job where they have to actually push their boundaries a little bit further every day. There are some exceptions though, but not much. - At least on my floor there were times when my mentally-disabled co-workers where doing so much noise that it was impossible to speak to peers or clients over the phone; I remember a call where I was talking to an important client from a country in Central America and behind me in a table full of 'new acquisitions' they were loudly talking about how much blunts they smoked on the past weekend -- go figure - A resource commonly used by the company is assigning you nice projects or giving you interesting assignments to keep you hooked in the company every time you raise the issue of the low salary or the stuff going on elsewhere. Don't be caught with your guard down - Most of the Xanax smiles you see everywhere aren't genuine - at all. Specially the ones from your Site 'Champion': don't be fooled, 'Champions' aren't really there to help you out but instead to keep you controlled and under the radar. They are just H.R. with a silly name. Before buying their speech move a couple of steps back and try to realize the full picture. You're welcome. - Be prepared to fight hard for the best salary, vacation days and perks you might think of before getting your sign on the paper -- there won't be another chance to improve your conditions later. Trust me: this is the same advice I received from a very close friend that worked on GLB and eventually resigned when I told him I was about to get there (additionally he laughed hard but I won't do the same here :) - Their culture and values are joke. They have a lot of nice catchy phrases all over the facility which they sadly seems to completely ignore
