Good mid-career option for a year or two, but nothing else
Pros
- If you're lucky with the project (pick the long-term one), the place is nice. - Fully remote work. - Management don't know that you exist. Sometimes you just forget that you're EPAM employee and not the project employee. - Pretty stable during the "stable" times.
Cons
- The payment is split into the "base pay", which is abysmally low (min wage) and the "bonus part" which is a bulk of the payment (not true for all the countries, but if country allows this it'll be like this). If you're on bench - you get only the "base pay". - Difficult to get corporate laptop, you're expected to work on your own. - Management don't know that you exist, you have no direct management, instead you have a "pool" of people who are supposed to help you. This is different from "Regular EPAM" where you have managers you know who can solve all your problems. - What you do on the project does not correlate with your salary. At all. What you do for EPAM (courses, certification, interviewing new potential employees) - do. - Not an "IT" company, it's the "HR staffing" company. No development culture, but very strong and invasive "corporate" culture when you need to interact with it. The business model is to sell people not sell the IT solutions. - Switching you level (from middle to senior) inside the company is harder than getting a new job (grueling review process, way harder that just doing a side-interview at another company). - "Dog eats dog world" during unstable times.
