Corporate in the Worst Sense - Anonymous employee Bureau Veritas Employee Review

1.0
7 June 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good local staff. But they were that way before BV bought them,

Cons

This is a huge, french company and make no mistake -- they do not care about their people, they care solely about their bottom line. The people in the various local offices are good at what they do, but they do not make the decisions. The higher ups in the office I was at would not even pay for flowers to be sent to a sick staff member. And they will lay off good people without notice, without severance, with barely a nod towards the door. Because it has gobbled up a lot of local companies, it is both cheap like a small company but huge and unorganized monster with the left hand doing one thing...and the right doing god knows what. And truly no one does know what.

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Pros

- Remote work - Easy and rote work, usually involving the same technologies over and over again - Likely to find at least one other coworker who is also miserable, to commiserate together

Cons

- Pay is below market rate for positions - Little-to-no opportunities for upward movement nor lateral movement, in employment within company - Overly reliant on single, massive clients - Work was tedious and monotonous for ^ this reason - Atrophy of advanced skills, which were never needed for this job - Vulnerable to implode if a single massive client pulls out - Company touts "green" and "eco" conscious values, yet company is actively, hypocritically, engaging and ramping up its contracts with massive oil companies in Western Asia

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