Reviews van TNO

Pluspunten

1) A large variety of projects (see minus points). 2) A lot of independence (see minus points). 3) A Dutch organization (see minus points). 4) Nearly transparent salaries (see minus points).

Minpunten

1) A large variety of projects means that you will never get the focus that you need to advance in a certain domain. You will find yourself in one project managing the others, in another programming solutions and in a third talking to customers. It may sound good, but after 5 years you will find yourself exactly in the same position as at the begining. 2) You can, for the large part, conduct your work independently and as you see fit. This means you can follow how it's down, but also not, it's all up to you! Great, but without proper guidance, you will find yourself bumping into the wall way too often. 3) As a Dutch organization, it prides itself in that there is little hierarchy. Right? Junior, Medior (what is that anyways?), Senior, Department Head and that's it. Well not really, you will find another entire bureaucratic monster above this, where Unit Directors, Market Directors, Directors of Operations, PMC leads, Business Developers sit and everyone needs to be aligned only for the sake of alignement. Advancement into this domain is only for the Dutch, if you can speak Dutch and you have a bit of luck, then you might get there as well. 4) Salaries on the below Department Head level are nearly transparent. Increases in salaries do not necessarily follow inflation (for several years in a row) and have lately been standardized to not actually reflect your performance. Thus there is no monetary motivation. HR justifies this by referring to reports that non-monetary appreciations goes further than monetary, while the bureaucratic monsters reaps in the monetary benefits.

Pluspunten

Lots of autonomy Challenging and societally relevant work Great secondary benefits

Minpunten

On industry and space side of TNO engineers get paid below average market value

Pluspunten

Veel vrijheid en controle over agenda. Altijd interessante onderwerpen

Minpunten

Bureaucratie, veel managementlagen, interne politiek

Pluspunten

Interesting work. Selling the impossible is fun You only have to take care of writing hours. New ignorant customers keep coming in anyway. You may bring in new knowledge because there's a constant brain drain.

Minpunten

Forget about carreer. Even as a first step this company is a waste of time. The management throughout the whole company is absolutely evil. Nothing is what it seems. Everything is a lie. It's all and only just about money. You're not expected to stay longer than 5 years, but they only tell you that in your first month. It begings with a brainwash "training" for young employees and ends with an obligatory and very unheathy redomestication program planned to make you resign voluntarily. For your own good.