It quite quickly becomes obvious that you are simply a name on a list here to make profit. The turnover speaks for itself : employees leaving during their probation period, employees breaking their VIE contract (which is a contract pretty hard to get) or not renewing it after 6 months, employees dismissed from one day to the other, employees who relocate from France to Prague for a VIE agreed upon and end up being told that the agreement is ‘postponed’. The perks of procrastination, right...
There is currently no HR, consequently all HR related subjects go through the CEO who acts as the supreme ruler because he owns the company. So much for a communication bridge between the management and the employees. The management can spy on everything, your calls, your Skype, your emails, Big Brother type.
They ask the employees to constantly ‘go the extra mile’ with no acknowledgement of their involvement; that means extra hours hardly ever compensated, extra missions out of your scope, an agressive sales strategy towards customers, etc. The CEO said it himself : « if you are not going to go the extra mile, your place is out of here ». Straight.
The management focus is miles away from the operation teams, and the man acting as General Director is unfamiliar with the work of most teams and has little knowledge about the translation world. #recruitmentstrategy
The focus of the management, through ‘internal non conformities’ is to keep a constant denunciation policy in place: the solution to a problem is hardly a concern; the real concern is to identify the employee who did the mistake so his/her name can be proudly exposed on the claim section of the Quality page of the company's newsletter.
Last but not least, the CEO can be highly disrespectful to his employees and has temper that is out of place and condescending. But we cannot blame him, because « he owns the company », right?