Very bureaucratic - Anonymous employee Digia Employee Review

3.0
May 4, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

* Some interesting projects and big clients, where you are able to get good working experience. * Possibility to rotate to different kind of job. This is actually encouraged if you feel that you are not satisfied with your current tasks. * Colleagues are nice. * Dental care is a good benefit. * Work/life balance is very good. * Office is quite nice, even though the location in the suburb of Helsinki is not ideal.

Cons

* Overall very bureaucratic. At times it seems that you are not allowed to do anything without approval from supervisor. * Working computer is dictated by company policy. You are not allowed to choose computer of your own choosing. An exception is sales people and management who seem to have much more flexibility, which is counter intuitive. * Mobile phone models are also dictated by company policy and the offered models are ancient/bad. Again, sales people and higher level managers are an exception who are given much more freedom to choose. * Rewarding is basically non existent. E.g. no personal bonuses are paid. * Old fashioned, no real interest in innovation and new technologies. * Hopping into KIKY bandwagon was a real blunder :(

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Cons

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Cons

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