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      EPAM Systems

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      4.0

      82% would recommend to a friend

      (13,358 total reviews)
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      Balazs Fejes

      87% approve of CEO

      70% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.8

      Senior management

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      EPAM Systems has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 13,358 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The EPAM Systems employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      13K reviews
      2.0
      Aug 24, 2017

      High rating company with Slavery Factory in mind

      Lead business analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      In general EPAM Systems, Inc. is a good place for undergraduates, junior and regular-level specialists who have the passion for learning and professional growth. In a word, a good place to start with...! One can quickly and effectively grow here as the Company provides such options through variety of projects and initiatives like training, conferences, workshops, certifications, learning, skills and knowledge exchange sessions etc. Internal and Global mobility options. Accurate infrastructure and quality internal system platforms.

      Cons

      The company has outstanding shortage of competent personnel on higher managerial levels and on key positions. Most of the managers come from Eastern Europe and post-Soviet countries still holding an old-school mindset and attitude towards employees, which is basically about “I’m the boss and you are the fool”. Though worth mentioning that local Polish managers are quite better and mostly professional. Strangely-formed and costly benefit packages comparing to competitors. Almost no employee retention policy. I’ve been watching the best and key people leaving without being given a second chance. Only promises in the air. Seems like they're squeezing you out waiting for you to get final dry and bored. Senior and junior stuff are treated the same way, no clear understanding of seniority and responsibility scope. If you happen to work on a client side then you’ll be totally deprived of the company feel and communication. The only time they’ll remember about you is when you forget to fill in a time slot in your weekly report so they cannot get the money from the client. Bonus and rewarding are just nice words at EPAM. With 100% client feedback, excellent output and contribution both to project and to corporate events/affairs you might still find yourself on the edge fighting for what is yours deserved piece of cake. It reminds of a big slavery factory and for the company with such rating and history it’s a real shame to have such managerial personnel treating people in such manner.

      1.0
      Jun 20, 2017

      Run by Eastern European mafia

      Test manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      ....when EPAM was small in Switzerland thez hired the right/ best people and paid them the right salaries. It was a good company to work for, supportive, small, friendly, occasionally good night life and you could see a career path.....

      Cons

      However after a year there it all changed. Later when entrenched in UBS, thez started to sack the more expensive & experienced western europeans & indian staff, then bring the Eastern europeans over en masse to replace them. A lot were badly trained, had a joke for experience, but because there were a lot of them eventuallz you found the 1 in 4 who was competent and could cover for the other 3 in 4 who weren't. A lot of poorly trained managers. Amazingly biased to career progression dependent on country of origin. Culture, someone said that they have an intranet for everything, but don't expect the career path one to work. You can only progress if you tick these 10 boxes & do these 20 courses, but the courses don't exist, but because you haven't done them, that is all your fault, therefore no career progression. However have seen colleagues promoted without any reference to this, all because of their country of origin. Some get promoted to push them into positions, where they can be quietlz useless without bothering anyone else. EPAM and I parted company, though had to get a reference from them for another role in UBS. So what did thez do? On the one hand gave the Projectt Manager a completelz false report and then offered one of their Polish guys instead. The PM told me himself, but because he had to applz to them and they gave him this reference, he apologised that he had to take it, so no job for me. This is why I don't have a good opinion about epam. The "yay epam" factor is just not there for me....

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      EPAM Systems Response
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      We take all feedback serious and have been reviewing your input. EPAM Switzerland is a fast growing community of IT experts with vast professional experiences, diverse personalities and backgrounds, that are providing first class services to our clients. Last year, 29 EPAM Switzerland colleagues were displaying their professional growth by getting promoted to higher levels. A global team of experts is reviewing all promotion requests, spend time to talk with each and every nominee and check their technical and personal competency fit for the next higher levels. A lot of effort is being put into a fair and consistent promotion process, which is managed by global teams. EPAM is a fast growing company with much success in the market place. Our people are the fundament for this success.
      1.0
      Mar 14, 2017

      Worst Company:No Job security

      Software engineer
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      None at all Level of Cons is so huge that it makes pros almost negligible

      Cons

      1. No Job security. I have seen people getting fired even i knew they have contributed a lot for project. Burned their mid night oil and in return they are fired if they don't have project for you currently.No bench policy. If you are on bench then you can only count days. 2. No Work life balance. Even if your work is over and you dont have much to do then also you have to stay late because someone from your team is staying late 3. No Rewards and Recognition even if you have given your 200% in project 4. Too much politics

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