A company for the young and naïve and that doesn't hold in a closer examination of the image communicated - Anonymous employee Netlight Employee Review

Long hours and long days, not for parents or people with other things in their lives Even though the management never says so directly, they imply that you should contribute to the company (on your own time) to be able to level. You are expected to invoice your client 100 % of your normal working hours throughout a month. You are expected to participate in events at the company, but since you are putting 100 % of your working hours on your client, the time you put on the company is your own spare time. Normal average hours of extra time is 5-10 hours a week for a person at Manager level. Most employees at junior levels put in about the same or more. Since you "have to" put in these hours in the company, very few parents last more than a few years in the company. Not that good pay, if you look at what you are actually getting in return for what you are putting in Since you put in a lot of hours in the company one would expect the pay, including pension and benefits to be good. The salary is OK, however, the pension is an absolute minimum, the PC and other tools you need to work are the cheap ones and any expense, like phone bills, dinners bills when talking to adepts etc, are undoubtedly questioned. And this is in a company that made more than 30 % profit?! One could expect that a company like this would have a good program for buying shares in the company, and yes, there is a program for it, but no, it is not that good. Not so open, no Netlight brags for being a flat, open company with possibilities for the ambitious. However, since there are no formal ways of communication, the information does not flow as free as the upper management might believe (or wants the employees to believe). And it does not matter how ambitious you are since it is more important that you ally with the "right" people rather than do what is good for the company and the employees. This has turned into a culture where the ideas that are controversial for the company are not allowed to be discussed in the open, e.g. who are the owners of the company and how much do they make from the profit of the company. Hiring and firing Netlight is very ambitious when it comes to hiring. The Talent Search department calls every single one they can find in LinkedIn and other channels and they want to talk to everyone, so don't get too excited if you have been contacted by them. The hiring process is fast and smooth, as mentioned above. However, the firing, or rather getting-people-to-quit process is longer and not so smooth. I have witnessed several employees being maneuvered and treated in a way that they finally saw no other way out of the situation but to quit. There is a paragraph in your contract that says you are not allowed to start working at your customer (employed or as consultant). That is fine, but you are not allowed to work with _any_ of Netlight's clients. You are not allowed to work start a company with other former employees of Netlight for two years as well. When you stop working at Netlight, you are not given an official farewell, not even an email that says that you have quit. The people who work around you are not given the information, unless you tell them. Do I need to add that there is no Alumni function at Netlight? The cult The positive spirit in Netlight and how good many of the consultants are is a positive thing, as mentioned above. However, when some ideas are not allowed to be discussed, when things are done the wrong way (even legally wrong), when things are done "the Netlight way" and it is not allowed to be questioned, the bad part of the cult shows. I was often met with the phrase "that is the way we do it at Netlight" even though I knew that that way was not legal to do. I have experienced situations where the masses (the employees) have been lied to just to keep appearance up and to promote a up-and-comer in the company.