If you are actually looking for a career in tech or any related field, this job does not help you to gain any knowledge nor develop a skill-set in QA or Data Analysis.
- You judge random queries according to made-up guidelines, where you will never figure out, what the actual QA-process is good for. You just can assume if you have some technical knowledge or a field-related study. Calling this job a QA job or putting it in relation with geographical information systems is an absolute joke and embarrassment for any actual QA work or analysts.
- There is a strong lack of understanding QA and Data Analysis, and more a worshiping culture of made-up guidelines. It should be the opposite how metric analysis should work. Conformity at work is highly wanted, even though, they make it look like that your opinion matters. That is not the case.
- If your reviewed work turns out to be false, trainers and coworkers with zero-experience in QA or GIS try to school you, how Data Management, Metrics, or GIS works. It causes a high level of frustration. In case you have any field-related knowledge, this position probably eliminates any hopes to stay in GIS or Metrics.
- The office is poorly run. A few put a lot of energy in keeping things going somehow professionally whereas the original project manager barely shows up to work nor the vendor manager puts any professional effort in creating a professional work environment. Excuses such as "this project is new" should NOT be a thing for the world leading tech company. It is so embarrassingly run.
- Hand-picked coworkers by I-like-you-politics getting promoted into positions creating an environment based on how much your manager likes you. Do you have 5 puppies, do you like tacos? Yes, then you get a promotion. Favoritism and nepotism create such an awkward work environment that make you shake your head 24/7.
- The Welocalize HR on site creates a high level of frustration based on their non existing knowledge in employee evaluation or simple HR decision-making whereas the actual Welocalizes HR in their office is highly competent and really supportive. It seems like two different worlds.
All in all, this position and how the office is run has to change drastically to avoid unprofessionalism. Something clearly went wrong. During my time there, most of the people with endeavors and career plans just left. Probably still shaking their heads about the time they spent, just to put a leading tech company on their resume. This is not a QA job nor a Data Analyst job.
