At the interview, HR promised 40 hour weeks but only after signing the offer did the actual manager say we were only doing <37 hour weeks. I understand times are tough, but it would have been nice for them to have been upfront about this.
Morale was very bad amongst employees, and it was clear you had to find your cliche otherwise no one would look out for you. Because times were tough, it felt like everyone was just trying to hog work for themselves in order to get billable hours. As a result, there was almost no training, very poor onboarding, and no clear direction on where we were going. The only people that were protected were the core group who were all buddy buddy and been with the company for many years.
From chatting with colleagues, it was suspected that often times management likes to bring on new blood for the sake of saying they had engineering capacity to take on new work as this would look good for their bids to clients. When they fail to be awarded this work, they could always let go of employees.
It was really hard making it through the orientation training content on values and blah blah because it's clear no one actually follows it.
