Pros
Coffee machines worked most of the time.
Cons
- CULTURE - is pretty much TOXIC. You can't trust your colleagues, managers, subordinates. People will do disgusting things to protect or advance their careers - gossiping, undermining, mobbing, bullying, conspiring, threats, stealing credit, dumping blame, dismissal. (Also, not good place for people who are not native French speakers or at least C1/C2 fluent - ostracism, insults, racism/xenophobia - in French, so you can't understand.) - MANAGEMENT - too many incompetent “careerist” managers abusing their power to build their pathetic little "kingdoms" and causing harm to their people (burnout, exhaustion, depression). Lower managers are often inexperienced and could learn - but middle and upper management have no excuse. CEO lost a lot of credibility saying things and making them sound like big promises, without any intention to do anything. Also, it doesn't help that CEO came from large company and it seems he doesn’t know how to manage smaller organisation with less resources, but he's still expecting the same results. - HR - fully “americanized” and exists only to protect company from actions of the management, making them completely untrustworthy. They even tried to improve company reputation by posting fake positive employee opinions/reviews on websites. - CAREER AND PROGRESSION - total joke! Requirements are unwritten and arbitrary. Unequal treatment between sites, departments, and teams. Promotions by favouritism and office politics. You can have people with same experience and 2-3 grade difference - or people with different experience on the same grade – or less experienced person outranking more experienced. - SALARIES AND RAISES - initial salary low comparing to market standards and poor raises.