Appear R&D Engineer reviews

Compensation and benefits aren't very competitive

- The company acts like a startup when it comes to salaries, benefits and pensions contribution while it's not. - Management doesn't trust employees, you're only told what to do all the time, no room for innovation, any new/different idea is met with super aggressive responses (asked a few other employees as well). - Almost impossible to get bonuses due to strange expectations. They gave bonuses around twice in the last 7 years. Felt like these expectations were in place not to give bonuses on purpose. - Very slow self-development/growth, managers don't seem to care about that. - A lot of micromanagement in the company. - Really high turnover rate. Managements had a strategy of hiring mainly university grads, and no serious attempts of keeping experienced people, so most people leave after around 3 years. - Our team manager gave all the interesting tasks to two team members, which made it pretty boring for most of the team, and that was one reason most of my team left the entire company. (probably it's not the case of the rest of the company, I don't know for sure). - Some perks like attending NDC were exclusive to only upper managements. - The company rules were very abusive to foreign employees during the pandemic. Basically the company decided that quarantine time (10 days) is deducted from the employees vacation balance or considered as unpaid leave. Few people were threatened they'd lose their jobs if they go home and get locked there because of covid. We were only allowed to work from home if it's in Norway. The justification we got from management was: "we're only following government advise". The company was very unsupportive during this period.