Be Aware - Research Scientist VTT Employee Review

There is no yearly evaluation system. At Micronova they only give promotions if you have a customer project and not for doing great research (publications, funding, etc..). Discrimination between Finns/European/North Americans and non-Finn/European/North Americans in higher-level management. You see young Finns become team leaders without enough experience while they intentionally don't open the team leader position externally and keep saying no one applied for the job so we hired this person. New hires might be assigned to a messed up project that is ending and previous people had resigned. So they put all the blame on the new person and put him/her in an extremely difficult situation. There is no clear definition of duties for each role so team leaders sometimes use research scientists like an operator in the clean room and assign very low-level jobs to them. HR does not recognize bullying as harassment. They don't face the bully. HR is very biased and doesn't make any effort to face harassment in any form of it and also racism. Most HR people are very biased toward international employees. They don't even know the basic definition of racism and are very reluctant to accept that there is so much going on at least in the Micronova building in this regard. Be aware to record every single incident that don't trust HR. If you contact them and see they did not do anything, report everything to the office of the ombudsman and occupational health care. Most Finns (it was the case for all Finns in my team) don't collaborate with international employees. They exclude foreigners from the proposal writing process. And don't work-related information with them. The team leader does not do anything in this regard and if you report it to HR, they also just ignore you. Very low salary. They do so much advertising. Don't be fooled by that. They even have assigned someone to respond to negative reviews on glassdoor. Don't believe the response.