The major project was out sourced due to limited budget, meanwhile there is an expensive and nice-looking office under construction. The people come up with the shared desk design is not a programmer. As a professional software engineer, my productivity is highly influenced by who is around me and where I sit. I want to surround by the fixed team mates. And having a table belongs to you in fact makes you feel cozy and having a strong sense of belongingness, you can put a little bit something in the desk, like a picture of your kid. And now what, I have to clean the table before I went home and lock them in a Chicken-Housed-Sized locker each day, and second day I'll be sitting somewhere else with a different guy in front of me.
Some of the senior managers at HERE are living in a different world. They care about if they can get the most founded project and if they can get the resources. They are actively striving for that but have no idea how to plan the project and use the best of their resources to work with. Seems to me that the only thing they care about is how much money and power they can get. Charles Patoshik can do a better management job than those people
The HR in Berlin site is unbelievably horrible. When partner moves with you from an alien country and you want to consult some issues regarding the visa of your partner. HR will tell you: "We don't care about your family". Ok then we don't care about HERE anymore, how's that sound. How would you find yourself to get payed in an IT company if there are less and less IT personals want to work there in the future?
