I know this standard dialogue; every company will have its cons it’s up to you on how you take it.
Yeah, right. I too know this, and I am a person who always go with this approach, but the points I am going to talk about are not such points, these are really the ones where as a company they are losing it.
First thing, I always felt – ‘it was a great time’ during my last few months I worked in embedUR, few things changed and it might have been a hard decision from the management side, but what I felt was, that big decision was taken to prove something may be… may be to prove that management still has the power over employees and such things can happen again!!!
But from my point of view that decision was never acknowledged from the higher officials, and that taught still runs over all the old employees.
And for the ones wondering what that decision was, I will tell what exactly what I was told – “ embedUR always wants its employees to perform at the high level, so people who are not able to perform it its expectations and whose area of interest are not aligned company tends to lay off for cost cutting scenarios”
There is a domino effect taking place as with the attrition of employee strength, I think for past more than one year there has always been at least one employee resigning from the company. Well its quite ironic I could see this was triggered exactly after the layoff in 2017.
More imbalance was caused when the experienced employees left (4 and 5 + years’ experience) all we could hire were freshers (mostly). This did cause/causing a great deal of issues in-between teams.
Now enough of management issues, the work culture too has a bit of issues. I tried so hard to see do our company (when I was working in EUR) fall in its vision? well sadly it doesn’t. Now it has come to a point where every employee is expected to work on every other project, this might sound exciting for a few but practically – ‘One step at a time’ is always the best solution. With Eur lately, it is taking to many steps and managers are playing board games with the team members. I did see people working on too many projects and expected to commit to any task which are given to them.
As with the new hires, it has mostly become a replacement hire rather than a new requirement hire. And hence there is no proper training time or induction time given to the new employees, they are expected to work from Day one.
I feel company values its clients more ( no matter what) than its employees. This happens to a point where we are afraid to go up an tell to the client that we are not working today, we have activities going on, some one should stay back.
I have seen all the games, fun activities will be planned either when the clients have holiday, or after 7PM in the evening. I am not sure whether if this is efficient time management or taking the most out of the employees!
Now again to sum it up:
1) Old employees who know what embedUR is are going off, the with the very few left they are put into tough situations and it is pushing them to take hard decisions.
2) No work life balance!
3) There are not no seniors to give a proper KT’s to the new ones coming in, and hence there is no one to say, ‘Why things are done this way’! this makes the new hires to run in circles.
4) No Go-To guys, lately it is all young people at embedur and no design level discussions happening. It is all issue solving or doing what is said!
5) I felt I was not acknowledged with my work at right time, this really made me not to value few of the incentive awards given. Still I do feel it is not given by right evaluation and not transparent.
6) You do not have any of the fun activities happening, its all work. This is not a company you can have #embedur_ethinic day or #fun ever.
7) Employee and management level politics are seeping in, this is bad because Embedur was never into such things. I am not sure if it’s a senior scarce environment or whether the new employees bringing in, but this needs to be kept in check or we are sure going to lose our quality ( which are our employees)
