1. In the last few years there has been a significant shift in culture, it is increasingly demanding and becoming more and more corporate.
2. Many negative pressures and changes to the company are attributed to "Group Level decisions" which allegedly cause little room to negotiate and drive a lack of trust and freedom. There are rumours of a sale from private equity.
3. After receiving offers from different consultancies I compared my HSO contract to those offers and HSO provided a very complicated breakdown of "costs to the employer" and added it to the total "salary" which accounted to ~10000 euros (this breakdown included the cost of a laptop?). The other offers did not contain this breakdown. They will claim this is an attempt to be transparent, but feels more like a way to deceive and artificially increase a salary offer to be competitive.
4. Recruitment is in overdrive at the moment, with quite a few people sitting on the bench, in todays state I'm not sure how many people will be on projects in the near future, or just an excuse to increase headcount for "growth"
5. The current trend of projects we complete tend to be highly demanding and burn out people, across both FnO, CE, and Integration.
6. This entity feels like a way to separate from the Dutch organisation (HSO Netherlands) from the Internationals as a way to shroud certain employment rights and provide the bare minimum in order to take advantage of the Dutch 30 ruling and save money by hiring internationals.
7. Overall this company is starting to become like a typical work horse machine of the complex Microsoft Partner environment by backfilling employment gaps with internationals. Instead of the fun elite consultancy it used to be.
