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There were a couple of questions sent related to the "contract", so that the below is a complement. The company will follow a "2 stage" approach when trying to hire someone: 1st they make you an informal offer in the form of a "letter of intent", and then if this goes well they will make a contract. The problem is that they do not translate the agreed offer into the contract, or at least that was my experience. In my case, the offer was composed of 1) a fix + 2) a variable + 3) car. All of them were in the letter of intent and agreed. But when it came to the contract (which by the way, if you leave them they will send to you "last minute"), 1) for the "fix" part they inserted a clause that they could revise it once/year in whatever way they pleased; 2) for the variable part it was not recognized in the work contract - instead, they refer to a separate document where the rates are specified, which is clever, since this leaves the company the freedom to change that 2nd document anytime, so that you don't have, as it is normally the case, the legal right to the variable if conditions are fulfilled and targets achieved - instead the variable is then a kind of "goodwill" from the company; 3) and finally the car there was no clause on the contract specifying usage, and an additional contract for that was also not provided. So to summarize, for every and each element of the package 1+2+3 they wanted to leave the "backdoor" open to have the freedom to change if needed or pleased. More junior professionals probably will swallow this, but more senior and/or sophisticated professionals will notice the trick. The company seems to be solid and to be honest most of the people were very agreeable indeed, so it was a shock to see this happen at the very end.
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