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3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

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Sassine Ghazi

55% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

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3.0
Feb 25, 2021

Nice job, not so nice place

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Pros

Work can be very interesting and challenging. Salary is not that bad, good medical insurance and good end-of-year bonus. If you have the proper personality and stand up for yourself, work-life balance is pretty good.

Cons

Salary or promotions are not necessarily tied to performance. Promotions are almost nonexistent, and unfortunately, real salary increases are tied to them. Management is pure and simple BS, reduced to repeating obvious speech from the "how to be manager" books, but with ZERO capacity of leadership. Also, criticism is completely discouraged, in very bad terms, plus Chilean office and employees are always seen as secondary to USA, meaning their opinions are always belittled in favor of the ones coming from the corporate, no matter how wrong could those be.

3.0
Feb 21, 2021
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Pros

It is a big company, so you will learn a lot if you are just finishing college. The salary is also good if it your first employment, and it is adjusted once a year The company has a very good work environment compared with the local market, and there is no problem if you have to get later or leaving earlier if you have to run errands or have any urgency. Challenging problems.

Cons

Management says that the payment is accord to market, but the type of job needs people over the average, which is guaranteed during the interviews. The salary don't increase too much during the years (even if you are promoted), and management will not do a big offer to keep you working there if you get a good offer from somewhere else.

3.0
Feb 18, 2021
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Pros

Great work-life balance, with nobody working on weekends and a flexible work schedule. Low stress. Many people work here for decades. Overall, people are friendly.

Cons

Innovation is difficult because new code must be integrated with poorly-written legacy code, exposing bugs at every turn. It takes years to become proficient enough to contribute intellectually, but knowledge gained is largely not transferable. Overall, low growth potential and low salaries. Lots of talk about diversity but little action. Not great for young and ambitious engineers.

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