Infosys in Brno, Czech Republic is a good company for newcomers up to 12 months of work
Pros
Infosys in Brno, Czech Republic gives a temporary accommodation at hotel for 2 weeks. The offered benefits can be replaced by an equivalent salary contribution. They give you opportunity for home office, give you full work equipment for this purpose. The company is sufficiently good for beginners and newcomers, they provide an extensive training, to make a real beginners the professionals. The workplace at the company's office is well equipped and cleaned everyday before the work starts. The common areas (kitchen, toilets) are cleaned regularly as well, several times during every working day. The kitchen is well equipped, they provide coffee makers instead of coffee machines, natural coffee in grains, filtered water, and sugar. In the kitchen area you can find tables and sits to consume comfortably. The toilets are fully equipped. The disinfection fluids/gels are up to date, checked everyday and exchanged if necessary. The common areas include the space with comfortable sofas to spend your breaks. The team leaders are friendly, smiling, freely talking with every employee. The breaks are negotiable with the team leaders. The team leaders and other management are mostly not the locals. Diversity is well preserved at Infosys, the company provides instructing videos on disabilities, skin color, gender/sexuality at workplace for the compulsory training.
Cons
Infosys in Brno, Czech Republic provides boring and senselessly prolonging team meetings. Low work volume in their projects is the crucial reason for either low or lack of the performance bonus. The electronic work system (ticketing, SAP etc) is not fully in English, the team leaders and other management promote non-English conversations either with or between the employees, while by the contract terms English is defined as the work language and other languages are only the support languages for the markets. Very limited communication with the HR department of Infosys makes a real difficulty for every formal request. The HR delays the crucial decisions, makes the decisions on relocating employees between different projects without either prior consultation with or agreement from the affected employees. During a sick leave at Infosys, the company's payroll often provides you with a 0-amount payslip or even a negative amount payslip, what makes a debt for you with respect to Infosys. The company requires from employees to sign the financial declarations additional with respect to the work contract, for example you need to declare by a written form that you will give back the money for your temporary accommodation at hotel if you leave Infosys before the end of the fixed-term contract, usually 12 months. Infosys does not provide a financial growth in a base salary after 1-2 years of initial contract, as a result usually newcomers have a salary higher than their senior colleagues employed on the equivalent roles. The opportunities of professional development at Infosys are poor and mostly not related to the actual role of an employee, so the chance for a career growth is unlikely therein. The declared work period in the fixed-term contract, usually 12 months, can not be kept by most of employees due to the faulty and distracting work of the HR department. The HR department has mostly the local staff. The benefits declared in a job offer from Infosys are often unavailable or partially available. Infosys makes a clear prejudice onto nationality and birth country, it promotes India and Indians because the headquarters are based in India and the higher management are Indians. The training is boring for experienced newcomers.
