57% positive business outlook
Pros
Good benefits, competitive salaries. A lot of education. Fringe benefits like coffee, sodas, sweets. Team building events. Payed sports and bike to work subventions. Good place to learn and grow professionally.
Cons
Some times they get a bit bureaucratic, and thing in projects are developing very slow. On some projects they use fairly old technologies.
Pros
Good for students and interns, the learning curve is steep at the beginning, you can learn a lot from good professionals. You can ask anyone everyone will help and tech you. Lots of fringe benefits like food in restaurants, gym, cell phone per 3 years and cell phone subscription.
Cons
The salary is lower compared to competitors, as a senior there is nothing more to gain. Lot of people on that position leave because of that, lowering the morale. In short good for newbies and not so good for seniors.
Pros
When I joined the company, it was the best place to work in Macedonia. You had some of the smartest people, a competitive (around average) salary package, and a lot of fringe benefits. The culture was very healthy, and you could learn not only coding, but how to build software by industry standards, and with best practices. No excuses, only the best work passes. You could also learn how to be a positive, healthy, decent human being, that people enjoy working with. A lot of team events, sports gatherings, hiking, dinners, skiing days, etc... fully sponsored by the company.
Cons
A lot of extremely good people left, and the culture changed. The focus switched from quality to quantity. People that don't qualify for the positions that they are promoted to, are promoted simply because there is nobody else to take that place. Some of the managers don't really care about the people that they are managing. No real opportunity to switch the work you are doing. Easy to advance in title, but not easy to advance in knowledge since it's really easy to be stuck in a project, or a type of projects that have no innovation at all.
Pros
Gain knowledge and experience from experts and gurus. Great company culture. Cool fringe benefits.
Cons
Many projects use outdated technologies. Hard to climb the company hierarchy. Low salary.
Pros
Stable company, great team culture, people with a lot of knowledge, great place to learn. A lot of fringe benefits, free lunch, fruits, sodas. Seminars, parties, team events, project events etc. Team building at max. Demanding projects, interesting clients, cool things are being built. A lot of different departments focusing on different topics. Example: Innovation. People that care about other people. Honest company.
Cons
Technologies that are used are proven and stable and not always cutting edge. Building a career requires a lot of effort. Since it is a big company for some parts there is bureaucracy involved and some things change slow.
Pros
- Great opportunity for learning best practices - Smart people to work with - Many fringe benefits, like: covered expenses for meals in a few restaurants, paid sport activities (gym, basketball, futsal, swimming, tennis, ...) - Private healthcare
Cons
- No fast track for talented ambitious people, nor clear mechanisms to identify top performers - The performance review and promotion system is kinda broken. Each employee has a team lead and the team lead doesn't work with the employee on a daily basis. Often times the promotions depend more of the team lead, than the employee subject to the promotion. Some team leads would do anything to get their people promoted, other team leads don't bother at all about their team members. My team lead had only 2 meetings with me in the last year. Some team leads were having meetings on a weekly basis and were always trying to promote their people. - Lack of transparency. People were hired in positions for which there was no public job posting at all, just because they are close with the top management of the company. - The salaries in the Macedonian branch are low. Netcetera is working mainly with Swiss clients and getting paid very well for the services, but the Macedonian employees do not get their fair share from the revenue.
Pros
Very stable company, a lot of interesting projects, great place for beginners, lots to learn, generally pleasant people, great work-life balance, lots of fringe benefits, very flexible working hours, attention to education and development
Cons
Very very low salaries, bad people management, hard to make a personal progress, hard to get a raise, passive team leaders, lots of bureaucracy, slow changes, no clear career plans for some profiles
Pros
Lots of highly skills professional engineers which are eager to share their knowledge with their colleagues. Fringe benefits which are quite solid. Interesting and challenging projects, technologies and environments. Very good company culture. Very good processes and work culture. Overtime handling is great.
Cons
Sometimes pressure is high on projects. A lack of time / people can be felt in certain teams and projects.
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