Hard Working Talent Need Not Apply - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij Syneos Health

Low pay (lower than market) with absolutely no negotiation to increase pay with recruiter. In fact, she said she would discuss it with the manager every time I asked until the very last time I asked at the deadline for the paperwork and she said it wasn't approved after a pause and while stuttering. I was given the ultimatum that I sign the papers or would not have the job. The company was only willing to meet my former employers base pay (not including any bonuses, differentials, etc.), so I took a massive pay cut. (Should not have given out my base pay from my former employer...) Should have been a red flag, but I signed the papers anyway because it was a job I wanted and there was promise of promotion. And so began the adventure... No promotions even though the company brags about developing people and hiring within. I was with the company more than two years with excellent performance reviews when I asked in earnest about a promotion. My manager said I'd have to be here 5 years before they'll even consider it and it's reliant on the client. Interesting that two of my co-workers weren't with the company 5 years but received promotions and outside of my department, a woman I hired in with was promoted... You are a contractor to a company (or many companies), so if they restructure, you may be restructured out of a job. One word: Nepotism. Your hire and movement in the company is not about what you know or what you’ve done, but who you know (and many times, who you're related/married to). Also, positions may be filled before they are ever advertised, usually by someone who knew someone else in the department or the manager, so they got first dibs. This happened in my department. A coworker announced she was leaving. They filled the position with a friend of that coworker within a week of the announcement before the position ever posted on the website. It was announced in a call two days prior to the posting. No internal communication of upcoming jobs; you find out when external candidates do (and the positions are usually already filled before the posting is made). No movement in the company. I applied for a job with the grace of my manager who was supportive of the endeavor. She seemed surprised when I received the invitation for interview within hours of applying. Five, yes 5, minutes before my interview, she called to tell me she could no longer support the application due to workload complications, department needs and the implications of people "willy nilly applying to jobs" even though this particular position was in my area of education concentration and the only position I had applied to since being there. The director upheld her decision with the excuse she was a new manager (who had been in the position over a year and longer than I'd been with the company) and I was assured that when another position opened (expected in six months) I would be at the top of the list. That happened over a year and a half ago and I'm still awaiting that consideration with not a single call. Instead, they filled the position with someone who didn't even meet the basic qualifications requested in the job posting. (And, yes, they were a friend of someone.) Lack of supervision. Some people hired do not come into the office as they are required or work a full 8 hours, but the managers (most not in the office themselves) are not keeping track, so these behaviors are never corrected. There is at least one person in my group running a real estate business on the side and has not been confronted by the fact that he/she is using office equipment and considerable company time and resources to benefit their business, while failing to complete work but still billing the client. Worst of all, the work he/she doesn't get done is handed to those of us who are the go-getters and get things done, so we're punished for doing a good job and actually completing our work. No communication with the team. Since 90% of my team is home-based, they are not required to come into the office and many do not make an effort to work with the team, but rather work individually on projects. Therefore, there is little shared learning and process improvement going on. This was especially a problem for me as I was not properly trained since no senior staff was in office and no time was dedicated to training. Usually I was only trained on a task when someone was too busy to perform it and I received a cursory overview to do something on the spot until they could better train me, which never happened before it became my responsibility. PAYROLL!!! They have messed up my pay two times and are useless with answering simple questions. 1. When I first started, they were paying me hourly even though I am salary. I brought this up to my manager numerous times without anything being done until they saw it as a problem six months later. Then, I was expected to pay six months worth of overtime back in one pay check. OUCH! 2. When the companies merged, they wanted to synchronize the pay schedule, which they did at the first of the year, just after Christmas, without notifying us of the change in pay date until the day my paycheck should have been in the bank. Surprise! 3. I asked about a dependency in my withholdings on my paycheck. After numerous emails back and forth with payroll and other departments, I learned 1. it is not payroll's responsibility and I should contact HR (HR said it was payroll's responsibility) 2. it was the responsibility of a vendor (the vendor said to contact my payroll department) 3. it is not their responsibility. I wound up going to my accountant and getting a quick answer (less than 5 minutes), along with a comment that they were doing it in a shady fashion, not wrong per se, just confusing and possibly misleading.