Pluspunten
* Varied opportunities around the world, and you can pursue as much as your appetite allows. If you never want to be at home, you can definitely do that * Sheer force of will can get you far. Set yourself up by building relationships with the right people, and you might be able to get anywhere in the company * Unless you're in charge of actually delivering a project to completion, you can get paid pretty well. I've since less intelligent people make more at Netcracker than smart and talented people in other companies. * Incredible autonomy if you're in sales, which is probably the only department worth working in for the right kind of person. They taught communications and strategies there that still allow me to run circles around smarter people
Minpunten
I think it is best to illustrate by way of examples: * You are made to fly in before a client's workweek starts and leave after it is done. For too many people, that means they spend their weekends on a plane instead * when a friend was going on vacation, their manager told them to leave their phone on and be prepared to take calls * when I filled in time sheets for working 8am - 7pm for a week, I was told to punch in a regular 8 hour day * working at a project abroad, we had to work even if their was a local holiday since we were not "local" ourselves. However, when it was a US holiday, we were told we could not take that day off, since we weren't in the US. * after negotiating with my boss on objective metrics for career progression, I asked what I needed to do to make it to the next level, and their response was "You need to make sure you have good relationships with XYZ" => Lots of "kiss the ring" BS * when there is a blizzard and road conditions are dangerous, they send an email out recommending you to ask your manager if you can use a holiday to work from home instead * a C-level asked a colleague if we would move from a more expensive region to a less expensive one. When my colleague asked if they'd keep the same pay, the executive replied "Of course not, you'd live like a king over there!". Needless to say my colleague quit soon after * they once tried to switch people over from receiving a fixed per diem for travel wherever in the world to a more region-based per diem which is supposed to account for varied costs. Funny thing is that all the per diems went down, even for more "expensive" regions, some by as much as 60% * no 401k matching It's just a thousand little things that stem from the culture being pushed by the cabal at the top. But hey, they know how to make money