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Francesco Violante
Former Employee – worked at SITA
Pros – Well organized process from end to end.
Cons – Sometimes there were some inconsistencies within the design review process.
Advice to Senior Management – Come up with more standardization of technical design
2013-03-21 14:25 PDT
Former Employee – worked at SITA full-time for more than 10 years
Pros – Cultural Diversity and the ability to do business in every country in the world.
The people and the customers.
Cons – Constant reorganizations.
Lack of regional focus.
Always wanting a quick fix without investing time and money.
Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the field and the regions. They know what the customes want. Have field more involved in product suggestions. Stop managing from the top down.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-04-01 07:31 PDT
Former Employee – worked at SITA full-time for more than 10 years
Pros – Learn multi-culture experience, also internal politics. Business structure and rules. Well industry oriented product.
Cons – Difficult to set up long term strategical investment local resource.
Always EGG first ! Multi-functionality required.
Advice to Senior Management – Better to forces on to get customer trust, and how to convince customer to win, always at least minimum resource and support are required.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-03-13 00:22 PDT
Current Employee – been working at SITA
Pros – Great place to work, that offers great opportunities
Cons – A bit slow paced for my taste
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-03-03 12:40 PST
Current Employee – been working at SITA full-time for more than 10 years
Pros – Multi Cultural, Work/Life balance, Benefits, Vacation package, Good work environment
Cons – Pay raises are below market or no pay raises period for the last couple of years
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-03-07 17:31 PST
Current Employee – been working at SITA
Pros – Good environment learn alot from supervisors
Cons – Management are stingy they dont offer good pay
Advice to Senior Management – Respect your workers
2013-02-18 08:36 PST
Current Employee – been working at SITA full-time for more than 10 years
Pros – Same stuff everyone says - great people at the worker level, great multicultural experience, great travel opportunities for some roles.
Cons – SITA has been failing at virtually every project it tries. Voyager is a disaster, though management says it delivered "on time and on budget", which was a bald faced lie. The new finance system is a disaster, with no good data available to help manage the business. No career opportunities for those inside. Few to no raises. They reorg every year, as a way to wallpaper over the lack of business performance and issues within the businesses. But they never follow through on the reorganizations to make the current organization effective, before they reorg again. So over the last 6-7 years, the company has become progressively less effective. And morale is absolutely horrible. Either the CEO is blind to the problems, or there is a very effective filter of all issues that keeps him from being aware (which is cultivated by the fact that he is very volatile and loses his temper with his senior team a lot). This company absolutely WILL go out of business if it continues on the current path.
Advice to Senior Management – Wake to reality. Confront the problems honestly. And reward your high performers - because they are the only ones that can help you get out of the mess you have allowed to build since Francesco was hired.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-03-29 05:50 PDT
Former Employee – worked at SITA full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – Low pressure in a day to day business
Cons – No improvement process in place
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-03-15 11:06 PDT
1 person found this helpful
Former Employee – worked at SITA full-time for more than 8 years
Pros – Health Benefits, Multicultural, Travel, Co-workers
Cons – Lack of direction, Constant re-org, Not enough investment on new products, does not respect their workforce, Constant blame game for not having enough people, lack of full development of products, too much emphasis on marketing and not quality, good people are leaving or forced to leave, does not reflect the true of the company financial situation
Advice to Senior Management – Stop the lay off, save money on useless marketing, develop you employees and provide more resources to create and test products, be realistic about deadlines, follow agile methodologies, watch your senior directors not really aligned with the objectives of the company
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-03-09 10:26 PST
2 people found this helpful
Current Employee – been working at SITA full-time
Pros – Multi Cultural, Work/Life balance, Benefits, Vacation package, Good work environment
Cons – Lower compensation package than industry standard, slow career growth, minimal salary review, Orthodox management (Not Agile), Work-from-home not allowed by Line-managers even though HR allows it.
Advice to Senior Management – Be Agile, update pay-scales or be prepared to lose good people.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-02-02 12:48 PST
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