I had really high expectations when I applied to this company. The portfolio looked promising offering a huge variety of projects that I could try my skills on. Therefore, I was very inspired to start working as soon as possible. However, after very short time I realized something is wrong.
1) The onboarding was really bad! Since the company is quite international, it's no surprise to meet many foreigners. However, the onboarding presentation was in GERMAN despite the fact there were at least 15% who could not speak German at all (btw, the presenter could speak English and knew that there are many people who don't understand). The whole process was disorganized: we were almost left alone with no direction and no indication where to go.
2) After one month without any project, the manager decided to "temporary" transfer me and other team members to another team doing something we didn't apply for. Moreover, we didn't have skills to perform well in another team. Nobody cares. The management is happy that they don't lose money having us without project but they don't care how we feel as employees. At the end, this "temporary" activity turned to be quite constant.
3) Work in another team was a nightmare. The management is immensely incompetent. They think if they speak a lot, the work progresses. Well, they never cared to understand that the whole development process is like a balloon that will explode if there's a critical change. But they purely believed in their marketing presentation. At the end, the company is full of talkers, just being happy that somebody gave them money but without any clue how to put these money into high-quality product.
4) Depends on a team but in my case there were no bonuses, no self-development possibilities, no trainings. The only training they gave was about SCRUM. I don't understand why this training exist if the whole development process nothing similar to it (it was called SCRUM though).
5) It seemed for me that the management is not very interested in getting professionals or growing professionals. They are more interested to get cheap power to suck as much money as possible. Therefore, an employee is just an expendable soldier. You don't feel yourself valued at all. Moreover, it feels like the management thinks that they do a favor that you work for them.
To sum up:
- there is no carrier growth for people who seek for technical expertise
- the management is too much money and sales oriented rather than being employee oriented
- the company has no culture
