- Unprofessional working environment: People could come off as friendly, social and close at first, but soon you realise this comes at a cost of unprofessional and inappropriate workplace relationships & unclear boundaries between work and social interactions. Unless you manage to get in the inner circle of 100 people in the company, which usually consists of the very original employees, you won’t find yourself a social life there that’s worth maintaining, and even then, it is not a healthy social life & work relations.
- Favouritism: Management only promotes and gives pay rises to their friends and the in-crowd. How decisions are made are not transparent at all. Limited growth opportunities unless you’re managers favourite and you go out to parties with them regularly. On the other hand, if you’re one of the originals, you will get away with anything including being incompetent at your job and slacking all day.
- No salary reviews, no bonus schemes: No annual salary review or similar structure in place, not even in line with the inflation. Nothing! Unless you’re willing to negotiate and push hard for every single pay rise ( in which case you still might not get it approved by top senior people because of financial constraints of the company), you won’t get any pay rise (of course unless again you’re everyone’s favourite). Also no bonus schemes at all.
- Misleading job titles: You will be promised one thing / contracted a role when you sign your contract, what you get is completely different even from day 1. This is a very regular phenomenon that happens to 80% of the employees. You get random tasks/job titles you didn’t even ask for or specifically said no to before you signed your contract. Then they fire you or make you redundant for the roles/responsibilities you DID NOT ask for. You get changing teams and job titles constantly without consulting your preferences, that could be good in some cases if you want flexibility with changing roles, but most cases, people just end up being unhappy.
- Inexperienced heads of teams and top management & blaming culture: As favouritism plays a huge role in this company, you always end up with people who are either in the ‘in-crowd’ or ‘say yes’ to leaders in top management or in the roles that are out of their depth. They are inexperienced often cases very young professionals who have no idea how to be in the positions they are in, or just completely unsuited for their roles. The very top dogs don’t know how to run a business, they blame everyone else but themselves for the problems the company faces. They don’t know how to motivate their employees apart from making cliché and cringey motivational speeches (obv they are not willing to pay you). No structure and proper policies/rules in place yet they expect everyone on their best behaviour and if you’re not, it’s your own fault not the environment/culture/system they set. They are dismissive and avoidant with their ‘addressing the issues’ and never open and direct. They will try to shift the blame onto the employees and basically gaslight you making you think you’re the problem.
- No job security: random firing happens periodically with no consulting your team leader or anyone closely works with you. How those decisions are made are behind the scenes and non transparent they can’t tell you the criteria it’s based on. It’s also done in a way that is so obviously disrespectful and they don’t even try to hide it. You get hired one day, fired next month because you’re raising too many questions. No coordination between hiring and firing departments.
You’re just a number to them which is fine if they quit doing a bad pretending job about how they care about their employees. They don't even want to pay you severance if you are a reletively new employee - legal but unjust.
Most people are on a work visa and they ruin people’s lives based on nothing. Unless you are the managers favourite in which case your job is most highly paid for your level of experience and you will never get fired.
SINKING SHIP. RUN!
