Giesecke+Devrient reviews

3.6

75% would recommend to a friend

(66 total reviews)

Dr. Ralf Wintergerst

91% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

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1.0
Nov 6, 2018

Left Hand versus Right Hand

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Friendly workforce. Clean environment. Work / Life balance is decent.

Cons

Left Hand doesn't know what the Right Hand is doing 85% of the time. Too much "offline" decision making and directional change being made last second. Interestingly political - probably due to ties with banking industry. Low pay.

2.0
Oct 6, 2018
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Pros

Very interesting if you are into smartcard software development. Useful soft-skills courses paid by the company. Barcelona office space and office facilities. Team building activities (Christmas dinner is great), young and motivated team. Possibility to drive some change within local team, drifting away from rigid worldwide company rules. Work-life balance and schedule are OK if you don't do overtime.

Cons

Technical workers have to deal with lots of company politic affairs that should be taken by management instead. Poorly managed projects, especially when they are large and affect several international teams or external customers. Lots of unpaid overtime. One of the keys to success and career growth is working a lot of unpaid extra hours. Salaries are way below market average, although they are OK when coming fresh from university or getting hired after being an intern there. High rotation level. Most of new hires are fresh graduates or interns that leave after 1-2 years, when they find opportunities with better salaries and more confortable work environments. Barcelona's office is in the middle of an industrial area with very bad public transport connections, cause it also hosts the smartcard production facilities.

1.0
Sep 5, 2018
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Pros

Flexible working hours. as long as you work 8 hours per day.

Cons

I have joined this company less than a month. It was a worst experience in my whole entire career. After I have decided to move on from this company and this is not the ending yet. The typical local HR will find all sort of reasons not to pay your last salary settlement even though I have a valid reason given.

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The employee, whom we hired for SAP consultant roles, left the Company abruptly before lunch on 16th Aug. He claimed that he had to attend to his child for the next 3 months who was in hospital and has not returned to office since then. His boss even offered to keep his position open for 3 months. We also told him that we would welcome him back to the office anytime within the three months once his child had recovered, with the condition that he was to provide sufficient proof. As per his employment contract with Company, either he or Company has to give 2 weeks’ notice or salary in lieu should either party decides to terminate the contract. Based on this termination clause, we withheld his 2 weeks’ salary as there was no sufficient proof. There was no wrong doing on our part, and we had clearly communicated to him on this matter. Nonetheless, though he had not really fulfilled the condition, we decided to release his salary on compassionate ground and close the case. We only came to know about his posting on 12 September and were deeply disappointed with his negative post. We hope his child has fully recovered by now and also wish him all the best in his future endeavors.
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