Horrible for foreigners (SSC in Budapest) - Accounts Payable Roche Employee Review

2.0
May 12, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits for Hungarian reality. Most of the TLs are horrible with people - just a few of them are good enough to list them in the 'pros' section, however they are pushed down by the higher management. Maybe the experience is different if you're a native Hungarian speaker.

Cons

Barely anybody speaks English. Most of the employees, including payroll, do not speak English, even though I was told otherwise on the job interview, to the point where I was told multiple times to 'ask a colleague to translate' some official communication. Lots of career development is based on who was your university colleague or who your partner is. Management lies, often publicly pretends they didn't hear about an issue while in reality it was raised with them a couple of weeks previously. They behave patronisingly, lie about the salaries (which are very poor comparing to other corporations in the city). Staff changes all the time and is not respected. I spent min. 10h at the office every day - out of which 9h was regular, as it included an obligatory 1h break. Horrible life-work balance.

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