- From software engineering practices not as solid as advertised
- Low salaries and management is in denial of it. Comes up with their analysis which is, of course, does not reflect the realities of the market
- Friction (though became less by time) about the use of English in communication.
- Highly political environment (lots of gossip, exclusion in decision making). Basically talkers' heaven and hackers' hell...
- Indifference to the violation of work ethics (such as accusing people but not able to back it up) if it is done by Dutch colleagues. On the contrary putting a magnifying glass for minor reactions, the resistance of expats.
- In conflict situations, using "accept feedback" as a tool of harassment. E.g. if you think you are right and making it clear, what you hear will be "please reflect this situation on yourself and accept the feedback" translates as we do not hear you, please shut up and do what we say.
- Witnessed several situations where expats (particularly non-EU) harassed with "we will not extends your contract unless you do this and that" where mostly this and that are non-actionable vague comments
- There are groups in company which excludes everyone else from the decisions and go re-invent the wheel (writing message broker, poor wrappers around cloud tools etc etc) then force you to use them
- Finally poor location
