Pros
- Transportation if you are 35kms away from company office (although this seems to sometimes depend...) - You will leave at 6pm sharp each day - Good, kind and talented colleagues.
Cons
Ultimately, if you are happy to go to work only to pick up your salary each month, not ask any questions and don’t mind not feeling valued within a company and you have no dependents or financial responsibilities, then you will be fine - you don’t need to read on. After all, the new slogan is… Prozis is not for everybody. Evidently, the company I joined, and the one I left are two different experiences. It turned out that Prozis was not for me because: - On boarding - you will receive a tour of the office and given a presentation about the company on your first day, you’ll then go for a welcome lunch with your team leader. After that you’re on your own. It’s not unusual for new starters to not be properly introduced to colleagues, not given the appropriate tools to do the job or receive any formal training - often left to just ask the person next to them how they are to do the job. It says a lot about how you are to be valued as soon as you sit at your desk. - Change management and internal communications is very bad. Staff often left with more questions than answers about changes within the company - but don’t you dare ask about it… This feeds anxiety and a bad atmosphere throughout the company. - Feedback is not welcome. Therefore you have no idea how your performance is valued until you have your contract renewal feedback meetings. - Ideas, opinions and personal growth are not welcome. It’s a very rigid structure and if you suggest options you will be seen as a trouble maker. - All questions get answered “because the founder says so” - All negativity is ignored or squashed so not to ruin the illusion that Prozis is to colonize the world and everything that happens at Prozis is awesome. - No career progression opportunity - the role you accept will be your role permanently in the company - unless you are “encouraged” into a sideways move into another department. - Unstable environment- nobody knows how long their job will be there, constant feeling that you could get fired at any moment. People are not motivated by wanting to succeed to grow, but rather to just keep their job. - The whole place is a vanity project for the founder. Goats, music videos, poetry... yep, go with it and don't ask questions. - No obvious marketing strategy - expect to be doing one thing one day, and then a totally different thing another day, without any logical reasoning or explanation - imagine the chaos this results in when it's Black Friday… - New bonus rules - a coupon every 3 months to spend in store (without staff discount on products) instead of monthly payment bonus to your salary - “Shut up and work” signs and similar types around the office - motivational, huh? - No flexibility - you have to log in your time of arrival, lunch break and when you leave - there is no trust. - Micro-management throughout, from the simplest payments to be authorised to decor in the office - there’s that trust issue again… - Disrespectful attitude to staff members - too many examples to give here, the latest now being upon staff leaving they are now told “Prozis is not for everybody.” - Often you will only know that management know of your existence if you make an error, rather than good performance. - The office is a worksite. It was cold, there was no hot water - I hope that has changed by now, it’s loud, dusty and dirty. Goats near the kitchen, because… well, Prozis do whatever the hell they like and you go along with it ok? Don’t ask questions remember ;-) the WiFi was also very bad in some areas. - Different staff members get different tools to do the same job with no explanation as to why that is. Some may have a work phone, a work laptop (as well as their desktop), a desk phone, hell, lucky ones even get a mouse pad! - Some will only have the desktop computer to carry out the same tasks. But you will be expected to achieve the same results. - The values are unclear - strange to work for a company where you don’t know the values. Apparently two of them are humbleness and transparency - which is a joke considering the arrogance and the constant disrespect for partners, customers and staff. It’s anything but humble and transparent. - Management is very weak - with no obvious career progression routes, it’s unclear what the requirements are to be a Team Leader - as there are some with management skills that leave a lot to be desired - and with no emphasis on professional growth or feedback, don't expect them to take the courses to develop skills or show any impression of wanting to improve.