Pros
The company offers an opportunity to work in culturally diverse team. The are offices in various parts of the world and depending on your role you will likely have the opportunity to collaborate with the other offices. Depending on travel restrictions company offers a week training in the headquarters office in NL where you can meet others from all offices. If you have a desire to be a part of the team that makes an impact you can easily get involved in special project initiatives that impact the business and allow you to collaborate with those in HQ Performance review process is clear and allows you to voice your feedback in a structured way. If you enjoy talking to people and building relationships as you go this was a great environment to do so. The local office overlooks a great view of the city.
Cons
HQ management is disconnected from local office so if there was a concern in the workplace often it was not resolved and HR (I’m HQ) did not take active role in addressing concerns. Company notorious for employee burnout due to lack of work life balance. Local office had issues with toxic work environment as result of lack of resolution/action to a repeating offender that created a hostile work environment. (HR very hands off approach) Growth & professional development is mostly represented by taking on additional tasks in addition to your current work load. A stipend was offered in place of medical insurance (usually not enough to cover a 3rd party plan if you have a family). New hires can be overwhelmed by the amount of information and tasks involved in a workday. Difficult to adequately train (you either sink or swim). It felt like company wanted to change for the better and fix the major issues employees expressed but often made decisions that did not align with fair long term solutions.