Good intentions but no Vision - Education Consultant Engino Employee Review

Exposure to high-level and international projects. Opportunity to take initiative and ascent fast. Management fosters skill development.

Some projects lack long-term planning and follow-through.

The product has a lot of potential and the Company has a lot of ideas to evolve it and push it forward. My specific field of work in the company was very interesting and allowed me a lot of creative freedom. It offered a lot of flexibility and a very pleasant work environment in the offices. The salaries are actually better than similar positions where I am based. They offered to pay for extra education in order for me to take extra responsibilities not in my original job position (which ultimately didn't happen but that is unrelated). The company payed for business trips to Cyprus. The company offered great state of the art equipment and software for me to work with.

The company's entire structure is flawed. The CEO wants to micro-manage every single project, small and big, and doesn't always trust the professionals he hired. A lot of the company's revenue is dependent on research funds which means there is no steady flow of income in the company, making job security basically non-existent (hence why I no longer work there). They had and still have plenty of opportunities to invest on things that will make the company future-proof and more independent financially but for some reason prefer to be very nearsighted, focusing on what pays now and not in the long run. There is bigger value in seniority with the company than seniority in the field regardless of the actual quality of work the employee offers or the field the person is working in. This causes also many conflicts within employees who claim or pass authority to each other, thus resulting in so much miscommunication and lost time. At the same time there are a lot of family members of the CEO and other higher-ups working in the company which often results in conflict of interest or favouritism (other people have strict deadlines while some take months and months on a small project without any repercussions). Too many meetings, sometimes even repeating the very same topic and yielding the exact same results. The CEO sometimes censored people and ideas based on religious ideas (albeit the lesser of evils, still a major red flag). General disregard for an employee's personal time (CEO spamming emails during the weekend and demanding explanations on why we ignored them) as well as setting highly unrealistic deadlines. The CEO expressed that he demanded the company be our first priority (although credit where credit is due, he didn't always enforced that logic and showed understanding in certain occasions).