Pros
- salary - lack of stress - most of the times no need to do overtime
Cons
If you are there for any other reason than the ones mentioned in pros, you better search for something else. - SLOW PROCCESES: everything is extremely slow, getting a reply by email after 1 week is perfectly acceptable - 'YES SIR' ATTITUDE: people have in general a 'yes sir' attitude, will never ask why, will never want to improve anything, everyone is there for money and prestige and that is enough - ONLY LOW PROFILE ACCEPTED: if you want to change things you will be seen as the black sheep and soon you will realize that you either comply or leave, there is a monster of organization with people with no perspective - EXTREMELY BAD MANAGEMENT: management is interested only in appearances, in keeping relations with more important people, they will never care about the ones with lower levels - HIERARCHIES: the level, 'grade' thing is influencing everything: if you have a lower grade is not even acceptable to approach someone with a higher grade - BUREAUCRACY: in everything. in order to request access to a database you need to fill in a form, print it, sign it by hand and scan it again. everything is on paper. where is the sustainability the UN is talking about? - LACK OF FLEXIBILITY: very fixed schedule from 8 to 16:30, with fixed breaks at 10am and 13pm, no possibility to work from home, no possibility for flexible working hours. if you are late at work you must have a very good reason and to send an official email about that, otherwise it counts as half of day off. worst thing is that most people are ok with anything, and will not complain about anything, just to keep their jobs because it is a very well paid job for Valencia. there have been some employees asking for flexibility and management ignored all. however if you need to work extra hours to synchronize with New York for example that is fine and perfectly acceptable and will not count as overtime. - LACK OF TRANSPORTATION TO WORK: the base in Valencia is outside of the city. you can only get there by car. if you don't have a car you are in trouble. the only option is carpooling with other colleagues (if you are lucky enough to find people willing to take you to work on a regular basis). there have been several requests for a shuttle bus from employees and all of them ignored by management. again, where is the sustainability UN talks about if each of us goes to work in their own car? - YOU NEED TO DO MONKEY WORK: work is a joke and most of the tasks are invented just to spend budgets. people are sent to missions to Somalia just because the mission has money to spend and they do nothing there. they were even informed they are going for 2 weeks and once there were told that actually they need to stay 6 weeks. if you say no to this kind of things you have to perspective to progress in the hierarchy. that is how the managers are how they are. as a developer you don't get the necessary tools to do your job properly. you are encouraged to find workarounds rather than improving anything. there is a big non sense separation of duties because of political reasons. - TRAINING BUDGET NOT RESPECTED: every employee has access to a 1000 euros / year training budget. however, it takes more than 1 year(!) from the moment you request the training to the moment you get the vouchers for it, so basically you lose the budget for the previous year and it accounts for the budget of the new year And the worst is that no one does anything about all these, because it is a well-paid, prestigious job.