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Nice while studying - Junior Developer Barcelona Supercomputing Center Employee Review

2.0
Jul 5, 2019
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Pros

Flexible schedule: It is easy to make it compatible with BSc or MSc studies. The company may pay for your college tuition. There are a bunch of nice managers and coworkers, you can learn a lot from them. Private healthcare almost for free. UPC card, Ticket restaurant.

Cons

Weird work-from-home policy: You can't work from home on Monday or Friday or a day that is next to a bank holiday. If they paid for your college tuition you may have to stay for a minimum period of time or pay them back. The "new building" is already too small while it is under construction, we will see how this goes when they (finally) open it. Worst employee website ever + many nonsense procedures related to it. People come and go that much that projects are often moving around without following any clear direction. The only way to grow within the company is to obtain a PhD, sometimes it is not enough either. There is an annual cringefest, I mean, meeting... that I was told it was mandatory to assist. It gets worse year after year, and it seems that this replaces the traditional Christmas dinner that we do not have. The salary is way lower than in the industry, specially for computer scientists: If you pretend to do something more than paying the rent and your bills, better avoid this place.

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Cons

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4.0
Jul 23, 2018
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Pros

International exposure and a relaxed environment.

Cons

People continuously late at meeting/talks. The center is advertised as a multicultural center with people from over 50 different countries, but at BSC English is used as the last resource. It's common to have meetings or daily conversations in a language that not all participants understand enough; making integration for new people very difficult. This is not only my own experience as I've heard many people complaining about it. If you want to research at an international level, please, switch to English. The same is valid for emails. Depending on which department your group belongs, there might be no or rare opportunities to network with other groups. Low salary compared to industry.

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