Good workplace for juniors - Senior Software Engineer EPAM Systems Employee Review

2.0
Oct 26, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Option to work from home (not all clients though). Immediate managers are very helpful and supportive. Many highly skilled and ambitious colleagues, professional engineering culture - often more professional than that of the client. A good place for any junior to learn technologies and to improve their skills.

Cons

Salary between 30-50% lower than other companies in the same location. The salary raises are lower than the inflation. Learning and self-development is only supported in theory: you can only learn outside your working hours, which are already longer than those at many other companies (9 hours with lunch break included). Work-life balance is non-existent, the workload is heavy. You do not receive the same benefits as the employees of the client since you are a contractor. The projects are often bad, and if you want to change to a different project (client) you need to do interviews the same way as you would when you changed to a different job at another company. The senior management says that employee turnover does not make it necessary to raise salaries (according to them).

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EPAM Systems Response
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Hi, and thank you for taking the time to review us. We are glad you had a positive experience working with your immediate managers at EPAM. That can make a huge difference. We understand how frustrated you were. As a global company, we aim to provide fair compensation to all our employees, including benefits and pay. As a standard practice at EPAM, we aim to provide a clear professional path where every employee can expect to know the next steps and future achievements. We take input from past and current employees seriously when shaping our company policy. Finally, we rely on market guidelines to offer our employees competitive paid time off, vacation, volunteer and sick days. Please reach out with specific information or suggestions on how we can continue to improve at Glassdoor@epam.com. Best of luck to you in the rest of your career.

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Cons

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* About -10-15% less paid then in average on the market

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