More a sect than a company - werkgeversreview Consultant bij Netlight

- Lousy pay; the house takes much for itself compared to what you get. - Sect-like. If you like being involved in a sect, then Netlight might be your thing. They got their rituals and strong values. You need to be a believer. It's all in or all out. - They wont' work with partner companies. - Age discrimination: They only hire under 40 really. According to the official guide they hire persons with 1 - 6 years of experience. With more experience, the people would be too expensive to Netlight. And also they wouldn't enjoy being there, as it's so sect-like. They look for new flexible people, with small amount of experience, but not enough to know better. - Their internal projects are nightmares. - Bad benefits. It's just that other concultancy houses have better. Here, you have no free lunches (they pay small part of it though), no free commuter tickets, only internal courses. No certificates, or external training. There can be some rare exceptions. Only benefits you have are occupational health service, mobile phone (for you to borrow), laptop and small portion of your lunches will be compensated. - Superficial: The company is very superficial in many ways. The employees only focus on the work, and never speak about their lives outside of work. And it's not their fault, it's because of the culture they have there. They don't know each other at all really. At netlight, you have a strong separation of work and your life. The employees live a double life almost. - Lack of self-criticism: In their minds, Netlight is always perfect, at least almost for them. The threshold for complaining about something in the company is very high, since the culture is "everything is awesome". Even the reality can be sometimes very different. They have strong values, which they won't never compromise. So once you get there, you better believe in the values they have. - Sect-like following: This was one of the most irritating features the company had. They follow so blindly, and never question the values and rules they are given. Or if they do, those cases are not core matters. Try questioning their core values. - Hierarchical: They advocate no bosses, but in reality, each one of them has a boss. I think it just comes from a human nature. But they try to fight against it, and they are failing in it. Because they really do have a lot of hierarchies there, many different levels for you to "grow" for example. In theory, you have no boss, but in reality, you do. - Unpaid overtime: At Netlight you will have to work overtime that is not paid to you. They say it's not compulsory, but that's not true in practise. Most of it is. And besides, it's so sect-like that if you won't go, you will feel bad, as there is social pressure to go. You need to do peer-reviews of your colleagues on your free-time, and you will not get paid for it. And those can take a long time. In addition, you need to participate in their events that occur after paid work. You can choose not to go, but then you will be left out from the group. (not officially of course, but in practise). They argue that you will learn and grow from the extra work you do, so that's why they don't need to pay you any money, as growing and learning is your benefit. So the deal is: They take the money, you grow and learn on your spare time. I say crap. Sure, one can grow and develop his skills by doing extra work, but not giving money for the extra work is just wrong, and also, other concultancy houses do give money for that, so why should you choose Netlight? - Untangible core values: It is hard to understand their core values in practise, as they are so badly defined and interleave seriously. In Netlight, you need to really live with values every day, as everything is reflected through them. This is difficult as they are so unclear, so people struggle with this there every day! - Closed salary policy: Their salary policy is open on the lower levels, but closed on the higher levels. From partner level to up it is closed. They advocate open salary models, yet their own salary model is closed on the upper levels. And it is closed for a reason: to not to show the lower levels that how much money they earn, since it's much more than the lower level. And, it's money the lower level has really created. They are hypocritical on this very issue. - Do not underestimate Netlight. It abuses young talents who don't yet know better, and makes them to work overtime with lousy salaries. Business-wise, Netlight will do great in the future, partially because of the abuse they conduct.