Pros
- Salary paid on time - Extended family health insurance
Cons
- Leaving on time, not doing extra work after hours or working exclusively on the project is frowned upon by management and colleagues; - Overtime and weekends are not paid; - There is an anonymous internal tool for evaluating the company's and managers' policies by all employees. As the company is part of a global group, there is immense pressure from management for employees to rate the company with high marks to look good in the eyes of the group; - The same goes every year when voting for the Great Place To Work. Immense pressure for the company's score to be high; - A lot of show off for the press and social networks; - It is valued who “appears to be” to the detriment of who knows how to do or does the work itself; - In the annual assessment, 95% of the promotion/raise list elements are the same from year to year, regardless of the work done during the year, just because they are friends with the right people or belong to the “seem to be” list; - The annual evaluation is a mere pro forma to provide a justification for not promoting/raising employees who do not belong to the “appear to be” list; - The company does not provide training to employees; -High turnover among seniors and mid-levels. There are teams where in the last year 85% of the elements left being replaced mostly by juniors; -Many juniors coming from internships/academies launched directly into the project without any accompaniment by seniors because they are overloaded; - Projects made exclusively by juniors sold as seniors; - A lot of disorganization at the level of managers and HR themselves; - Sometimes juniors are hired at higher salaries than seniors, which causes seniors to leave; - Currently, they are unable to hire seniors or even mid-level workers in PT, so the solution is to hire directly in India. Several reinforcement teams are being set up in India, in various technologies, directly for the company in Portugal;
