Shiny on the outside and rotten on the inside - Anonymous employee Cielo Employee Review

2.0
7 Dec 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Global reach, high ranking, great people who will go the extra mile. This is a real work hard play hard environment.

Cons

The company is selling far more than it has the resource to deliver, especially on special projects. This results in people being put under unreasonable pressure to deliver on impossible SLA's. There's a big disconnect between the management line on Cielo as an employer brand and the reality. There is a lot more take than give for employees expected to perform miracles for very average remuneration and a large part of bonus's are tied to over blown and unrealistic budgets set by the aggressive VC owners. Numbers are king and people come a poor 2nd.

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Pros

well established clients. Interesting projects; friendly coworkers

Cons

No bonus, no merit increase pay out over the last 4 years. They say they want to strenghten their customer relationships and allocate more to AI but this is the worst way to do it. If your team went above and beyond and secured continuing business the bare minimum is a small merit increase. Growth opportunities for high performing employees will bring you more business. There is nothing to look forward to aside from a paycheck and contract renewal every 6 months.

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