Where to start:
- Be aware that this company was funded by a few people who have their own “inner circle” of protected and privileged ones (even if they are unable to do their job properly)
- The recent shift of management has brought unwelcomed changes: people are much more controlled and micro-managed; there is more pressure on KPIs (one of the few good things until some months ago were the reasonable KPIs) and commission structure has changed in order to privilege people in the top management
One example is from this difficult times caused by the virus: due to the fact they do not trust people working from home, they are now checking them every two hours and instead of trying to ease the stress and the pressure, they are asking people to increase hours on the phone and pressing candidates and companies more (is this a company who cares about people?)
- There are some people, particularly those in good with the management (without any merits apart from g binge drinking with them), which are always receiving benefits, as for example being included in incentives trips even without reaching targets and get randomly promoted as well
- They spend an awful lot of money in parties, but if you ask a laptop for working from home due to COVID, they don’t have the budget (ridiculous)
- Some people in the middle management think they can manipulate people with their useless speeches about how much they care about your career progression, when they are just thinking about how much money they will gain at the end of the quarter (and honestly people are smarter than you think, stop believe you can manipulate them)
- Client service managing is giving the fault of their mistake or unsuccess to their, when it’s pretty clear that they don’t have the expertise to manage the client
- Team leads are the worst. They obtained this job title thanks to the effort made by their resourcers (often more experienced and more capable than them) or, even worse, talking them down in front of the management and giving them the worst positions
There have been a few cases of bullying there, e.g. management (HR!!)laughing on how new entries are dressing or behaving
I would never go back, even if desperate, so be careful during interview, when they are trying to present them as good as they can!