Although the culture and workplace is a very enjoyable place to work, as a place to start a career, its very good and project work can be international and stimulating but promotion, career progression and development can be akin to dead man shoes or simply if you happen to get lucky. Not good enough to be ranked as high as it is in the Time best big companies to work for.
Some of senior management have been moved around after failing in other areas and mutterings amongst staff can undermine these senior manager's credibility and respect. This is largely ignored by senior management peers as irrelevant and of no consequence but anyone with any ambition and career drive this is extremely discouraging over time. There is is unlikely to be a solution to this as the culture of the organisation is typically not to 'move-on' such high-ranking employees.
The remuneration does not reflect the contribution and individual career development at the mid-level. Unless you reach 'F' grade, you are very unlikely to start to have a competitive package (Share scheme kicks in at 'E' grade but only at any real value at 'F' grade), even then it takes 18 months for the shares to really become financially beneficial and you can't keep them when you leave/retire. Pension contributions are good at like-for-like up to 7% but basic is not competitive for a relatively similar role in the (local & international) industry. Be cautious of the Profit share % of the package, it isn't contibutory to pension and has dropped from 11% to 5% in 2 years (2009-2011) which is a real term pay cut. Promotions are also hard to come by and often when promoted, there is no accompanying payrise.
