Literally a company from 1902 - Engineer Belden Employee Review

1.0
22 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible schedule. Good meal allowance. The non-management team is young, tight and creative. Sallaries are well aligned with the market. You are constantly challenged to outperform as your upper position (Analysts do the operational and management job, Managers are actually Directors, Directors are actually CxOs), which is a great opportunity of professional growth, however, it can also be a bad exploratory experience due to the lack of orientation.

Cons

Carrer plan could be better structured. Currently the possibility of promotion only appears as a counter offer in case you are about to leave the company. It is extremely difficult to migrate to other department/location within Brazil and worldwide if you are interested, even if there is an open position that you're matched to due to internal impairement. HR should be focused and aware of the professional aspirations of the employees, being a facilitator of the professional development of each person, however I feel a certain distance and a defensive stance of the HR towards basic questions about benefits and actions that are slightly different from their daily activities. There is a huge cultural contrast between the Diadema and São Paulo offices in Brazil, which frequently hinders the activities due to poorly designed processes and bureaucracies imposed on behalf of company policies. It is not allowed to work extra hours. Trips and demands that appear in off duty hours are "paid back" with equivalent time off, no choice, causing demotivation in the execution of emergencial tasks and poor work-life balance. I also feel sorry for my fellow student coworkers who are constantly burnout and underperforming at school due to excess of demand: 1 person doing the work of 2 or more, mostly because "for-yesterday” actions that rise out of impulsive thought in the monthly sales meetings.

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