Pros
- Occasional wellness activities at the local office and a relatively competitive compensation package.
- Due to the organization’s size and cross-functional structure, there are opportunities to build positive working relationships outside your immediate team, which can be valuable if dynamics within your direct team are challenging.
Cons
- Some teams experience a bureaucratic and outdated work culture that has been slow to evolve. In R&D, especially Software, employees may encounter very combative communication styles and team dynamics.
- There can be a perceived gap between headquarters leadership and teams operating across different time zones, which may affect the level of support employees experience in their day-to-day work.
- Long-tenured employees in some departments appear to feel disengaged, which can make change initiatives harder to implement and occasionally impacts openness toward new and younger colleagues.
- The dominant work culture in R&D and Software is male-oriented rather than inclusive, combative rather than collaborative, and disruptive rather than effective.
- Personal growth opportunities may be limited due to perceived gaps in leadership support and budget constraints.
- Annual performance reviews can at times feel punitive rather than developmental.
- Some middle managers appear able to operate outside established regulations due to their level of authority. Even when issues are identified, consequences can take a long time to materialize, by which point the impact on teams and employees may already be significant.
- Due to strong sensitivity to market share price fluctuations, the company’s structure and operations have become increasingly unstable. Since early 2025, there have been ongoing layoffs and reorganizations across global offices.
- The office is remotely located and not well maintained in terms of cleanliness, especially in the bathrooms.
- Employing people of foreign backgrounds as full-time cleaners does not reflect diversity and inclusion in a meaningful way.