Great learning opportunity as a first experience - Business Development Agent ISM eCompany Employee Review

Nice Colleagues in BD (but poor management) Nice Social Gatherings (lunches, after work drinks, ski trips, etc) As the majority of the BD members are students they provide a lot of flexible working hours - Good place for quick money during your studies but don't expect any career development Top Management: Karel & Michiel are good guys they just give too much trust to their team, which are not equipped or ready for the responsibility to lead others.

The company claims to be international but this is only at BD level - 95% of the rest of the company is very Dutch (closed culture). The company wants to propel itself internationally but they still do the majority of their business locally and internally Dutch is the spoken language at most meeting. Poor choice of mid-management: can not deal with feedback (giving or receiving), big egos and indecisive. They don't care about career development: they hire students because they are cheap but then for future steps in the company you need be a part of their 'boys club' aka: RSV Sanctus Laurentius to have any advancements in the company.

A passionate CEO, committed Product and Project teams make ISM an interesting place to work for. It also helps that ISM also happens to have a product which has no other direct competitor. It's mostly an environment which gives priority to employees - top management always seems to listens to employee feedback. Challenging environment to work for.

The product is still not mature enough and the processes are relatively immature (sometimes this makes life "interesting" for developers.) Some of the feedback received by employees, does not return any "benefits" to employees. Having to work with multiple offices around the world. (cultural differences, time difference, etc...)