Sorry. I will be honest. If you are engaged with hungarian Sanofi with pink glasses on, consider never read my sentences!
History of hundred years with the cons of the socialism era: culture was affected by capitalism, but remained the same. Company culture stops at company values posted in colorful posters in meeting rooms. The source of convergence is always against something or someone. This makes the athmosphere poisonous. Toxic people complain the most. The most complaining people get the most of the resources - compensation, respect, e.t.c. This is due to a bullying culture built by the chosen ones of the Hungarian management. In this culture, there is no carrier for you if you don't do favours. Silent well-performers are bullied to work better and more until they quit. There is a phenomemon of quitting young engineers. The management is full of conflicts, arguing with each other behind closed doors until nights. The base conflict comes from the "cost center" mentality of the French management. This means taking the profit out, but investing back under the minimum. Due to this, the state of the equipment park is amortizing heavily. This is helped by the workers' defiance - salary "rises" are constantly under the level of inflation. This led to striking. Sanofi is proud of its management, and managers do their best to cover the problems - solving them is out of scope due to the cost center mentality. There are heavy lacks in maintenance, failures cause defects in production. Workers mentality is not to prevent failures, but make them - this means free paid time for them, while their managers arguing with each other or simply waiting for maintenance... But if a manager is proud of his 40% cost savings in salaries, what to wait? Strict timetable of managers leads to endless senseless meetings, with productive times in the night. Work-life balance is heavily injured there, and the worst thing, that this is accepted as a standard! Computerized systems consume more manpower than they help. Lean culture made "failure as a value "- everyone looks for failures in the other one's work! Performance rating is total subjective - I got 0% raise after 100% completion.
