Pros
It used to be good.
Cons
It has become a miserable and toxic place to work, where unfairness and imbalance are the names of the game. Globalised Townhalls where a mess of talking heads speak to you in robotic jargon about future restructuring. An oversized and over-valued HR department are running the show. It values its inexperienced staff far more than its skilled employees. A place which considers 'going above and beyond' in your roll to be what most of us would consider to be just 'doing your job'. Dread is the feeling on Monday morning. A crushed soul is your weekly wage. Everyone is obligeed to do meaningless PDRs that have nothing to do with personal development. Nobody who has started there in the last five years will have gained more than the equivalenr of six months experience. A whole chain of people doing PDRs to please their respective managers. PDRs that nobody ever reads. Irrelevant training videos and zero skills training. Bosses with empty promises. Aloof management. Blame sessions and chaotic headbutting sessions between department managers is embarrassing to witness. High priority for some project managers is putting pronouns your email signature. Whereas a low priority is learning how to manage projects. Nobody is ever brought up on their errors. There is no incentive to learn from one's errors as blame is cast like a net over the whole shop floor. No overtime available for some while others are raking it in. Promotions are given out at random, often to people who are entirely inept. Of course, SGS also does the old trick of advertising for roles that it has already filled. People have been employed into key positions having either worked as dog groomers before or having been practically dragged off the street when the company still had plenty of work. Yes, the days where we had overtime paid. The days before the company started to send all our livelihoods to the far reaches of the developing world. A very unhappy place to work. I cannot say enough bad things about it. So why do I still work there? I would love so much to find something different. Maybe you understand what it is to get trapped by circumstances. If you don't then, good for you.
