Great projects and increasingly interesting methods and approaches. Colleagues make it all worth it. The upside of absentee management is that you get to own your projects, get to know your clients well and learn a lot on the job.
Cons
The subsidiary is routinely marginalized by the parent company, management, few upward mobility opportunities and therefore high turnover, poor workload management.
Working at the Brussels office:
Workload is very fine, allowing for a good job-life balance.
International atmosphere and rather young team.
Cons
Top management shows no real will to invest in human aspects/Team Building. This is demonstrated by the very high turnover of juniors.
No mentoring (or close).
General lack of commitment from employees due to the above mentioned points.