Pluspunten
Can go off on time (if you learn to ignore instructions via WA after 6pm). Nice colleagues (from other departments, not mine). Free fruits every 2 weeks. Benefits aren't sub par not up to par, but good enough - can be better. Good place to retire if you just want to do your work and can ignore people bad mouthing you.
Minpunten
Very hierarchal for a small company, too many layers. VERY political despite them saying there isn't. Promises during interviews aren't kept. Unproductive long meetings with no outcome except tonnes of meeting minutes and minutes. Seeking advice/help can be daunting as they don't care about your personal/family issues. Selective preference to some staff, if you aren't it, you're it. Peers can get personal and brush you off when you try to seek advice. Peers claim they aren't taught to do your roles despite they have previous experience and leave you to swim alone until you give up. Lousy IT support, no tools to work with, no internet for research, no tools for external conferencing meetings, for an IT tech savvy financial institute, this is pathetic. Steering comm meetings are not steering comm, they are update you meetings, putting a CFO inside such meetings asking pointless project questions is a full waste of time. Co-workers have issues with their emails as they don't reply, don't acknowledge and don't act on it. I suspect the email system is down - ALWAYS. Departments are sitting together but don't talk to each other to get things done. Small company but bosses tend to act like MNC high bosses behaving like emperors/queens while you are just a eunuch below the officers (sad point for this). Management doesn't support their workers in decisions and work, very menial and old ways of working. Perhaps works in the 90s, but this is already 2020, shape up. Expectations of you using your own mobile for work communications despite you aren't reimbursed for it. Unrealistic expected response times for off work calls to your mobile (even on holidays).