- Low salary unless you are on the first three rows under CEO. In England you most probably will start on a higher salary as a Crawley bus driver for which you are required to have "only a driver license and a smile". Other benefits are quite comparable to the market standards.
- Absolutely do not join 'new businesses', 'new ventures' departments unless you are looking for a short term experience. There is no agenda whatsoever behind these ideas other than "let's see which one makes $MM in less than a year on no market or business Intel basis". The now appointed management for this org has a long record of failing and closing down numerous departments, yet being promoted to this exec position apparently for his unparalleled endeavors in "cutting costs and head counts" for the company. Basically be advised that any department created or obtained in last few years is an experimentation field in dire need of deposable resources.
- In SI you need to be lucky to work in one of the 2 or 3 groups which are not infamous for their terrible people-management habits, or else you're burnt out within 6 months of joining and will be blamed for it, and will be advised to be more resilient and have a growth mindset if you want to be promoted. Other than that and if SI is your thing, it is a good place to say you are working in a company pioneering in XYZ tech before the competitors catch up with said tech within the next few years, if not sooner.
- Managers including HR management are so extremely intolerant of criticism or even suggestions that deviate from their mindset that it becomes amusing to criticise them just to watch them fall over themselves proving you were wrong and how great they actually are. In some rare cases when they admit the existence of some issues, they decide that it's the employees who need to go to trainings/focus groups and get educated and fix it in themselves..!? There is no accountability required from people above a certain pay grade when it comes to the work environment issues that are in fact caused or upheld by them in the first place.
