The company stuck in the past
Pros
- Fast moving, though getting slower due to procedures and processes constantly added - Some talented people around - Openness to international careers - In theory lucrative annual and long-term bonuses, which offset quite low base salaries
Cons
- People management and people development are absolutely foreign concepts to this company. Senior managers are not equipped for that - No clear career paths and guidance. You're getting promoted or your next assignment if this and that guy knows you personally, rather than based on your results and skills - Much touted Leadership charter remains mostly on paper, as senior managers keep behaving as they used to behave before - in many cases as mini-kings in their fiefdoms - RB comes up with lots of new projects, but is not ready to either invest or hire resources to succeed with them - so it ends up in the hands of current employees and squeezed into current budgets. So these projects die of natural causes after a while - Business decisions are driven by top managers' opinions and perceptions, rather than by data and rationale - Lots of internally-focused zero added value work - Bonuses seem lucrative on paper, but in reality they are modest due to the mediocre company performance
