Run by Eastern European mafia - werkgeversreview Test Manager bij EPAM Systems

1,0
20 jun 2017
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....when EPAM was small in Switzerland thez hired the right/ best people and paid them the right salaries. It was a good company to work for, supportive, small, friendly, occasionally good night life and you could see a career path.....

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However after a year there it all changed. Later when entrenched in UBS, thez started to sack the more expensive & experienced western europeans & indian staff, then bring the Eastern europeans over en masse to replace them. A lot were badly trained, had a joke for experience, but because there were a lot of them eventuallz you found the 1 in 4 who was competent and could cover for the other 3 in 4 who weren't. A lot of poorly trained managers. Amazingly biased to career progression dependent on country of origin. Culture, someone said that they have an intranet for everything, but don't expect the career path one to work. You can only progress if you tick these 10 boxes & do these 20 courses, but the courses don't exist, but because you haven't done them, that is all your fault, therefore no career progression. However have seen colleagues promoted without any reference to this, all because of their country of origin. Some get promoted to push them into positions, where they can be quietlz useless without bothering anyone else. EPAM and I parted company, though had to get a reference from them for another role in UBS. So what did thez do? On the one hand gave the Projectt Manager a completelz false report and then offered one of their Polish guys instead. The PM told me himself, but because he had to applz to them and they gave him this reference, he apologised that he had to take it, so no job for me. This is why I don't have a good opinion about epam. The "yay epam" factor is just not there for me....

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We take all feedback serious and have been reviewing your input. EPAM Switzerland is a fast growing community of IT experts with vast professional experiences, diverse personalities and backgrounds, that are providing first class services to our clients. Last year, 29 EPAM Switzerland colleagues were displaying their professional growth by getting promoted to higher levels. A global team of experts is reviewing all promotion requests, spend time to talk with each and every nominee and check their technical and personal competency fit for the next higher levels. A lot of effort is being put into a fair and consistent promotion process, which is managed by global teams. EPAM is a fast growing company with much success in the market place. Our people are the fundament for this success.

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