Horrible Culture and complete lack of leadership at multiple levels
Pros
Strong Financial situation. International collaboration with other locations of the company Long Term Growth Strategy seems to make sense Diversified project porfolio Beautiful office
Cons
R&D Center Opened in Mexico City without any strong leadership structure, no solid projects in the pipeline, no congruence on what the organizational culture is advertised to be and what it really is. The office just fights for attention from the global businesses, they see the office as a menace, and competition. Candidates are fooled and sold false information about their eventual activities and their duties, that's because once hired most have ended up working on different tasks and duties or even completely different projects than the ones originally advertised for the position. Changing company is a sever life-changing event, it's completely unethical to demand people motivation if you lie during your hiring process. Unethical and unprofessional corporate cannibalism. Global Businesses are charged for being supported (no development at all), with 100% of time and effort expected (to obtain money in order to finance the office operations, with the pretext of acquiring experience). Nevertheless collaboration with other projects is demanded simultaneously without any formal or structured project management or business cases involved, which ends up provoking overwork, inefficient tasks, bad results and frustration of the employees due to multitasking, thus provoking huge context switch overheads consequence of outdated, unnecessary and micromanaged meetings, inexperienced PM individuals and lack of empathy from upper management. These "side projects" for local developments are done behind the backs of the global businesses and even silence is demanded to be able to charge them the full bill as if 100% of worktime was given to them. HR is non-supportive, frequently absent and highly incompetent from service perspective, from your first day at work until last. Not even a copy of your employment contract is given, problems with payments, lack of seriousness, degrade positions without notice and worst, ridiculous performance evaluations which far from focusing on evaluating your results, performance and the impact you give to the company are rather evaluating how well you adapt to the archaic norms and bureaucracy that prevails. Retaliation is seen at all levels, and once this is reported, HR as described above, is of no help and even retaliates even further.
