Hiring / firing machine - Anonymous employee EPAM Systems Employee Review

1.0
Oct 24, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is possible to work remotely.

Cons

I would describe this company as a space with its own internal resources for searching for a project and/or position to work for the Customer/Client. So when you join a company, it's not something you might think about. You will be plunged into an endless cycle of interviews, job searches, etc. What's funny is that if you were hired as a senior developer, for example in the Java field, then you will still be interviewed again and again, just to evaluate you, are you a senior developer (even if your last rating was a month ago) Creating a career above a key developer or team leader is difficult or almost impossible, personal relationships are necessary. However, even becoming a highly skilled specialist ina field is difficult because the duration of projects is very short and you will have to move on to other projects very often, even if it does not correspond to your career growth. Because it is more important for the company not to keep an employee unassigned to the client projects for more than 3 months. So if you don't get assigned to a client project, you'll just get fired, and if you don't want to get fired, you'll have to do something just to get assigned to a project, but if you can of course. To get an interview with a client, you will need to go through an internal interviews loop, which in most cases looks like a lottery since it is conducted by non-professionals and in some cases not even experts in the field.

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EPAM Systems Response
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First off, thank you for taking the time to leave your review. We aim to provide all EPAMers with a meaningful career where they can learn and advance with us. We're disheartened to know you're not having this experience. We want to discuss how we can help align your career opportunities at EPAM with your career goals. Please reach out to us at Glassdoor@epam.com.

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