Scalian Reviews

3.6

71% would recommend to a friend

(93 total reviews)
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William Rozé

77% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Scalian has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 93 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Scalian employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
15 Jan 2022

Response from employer shows how bad they're

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Client is good to gain wide experience.

Cons

We get 15days of vacation for a year, of which 5 days goes to just their only client year end closure. So, you're left with just 10days of vacation for entire year. Don't even dare to think for sick leave, it is not for you to take it without any other reason but approved sickness. Employer response clearly shows they didn't care about their employees. They says employee can work on federal holiday and use those to cover client year end closure. What a shameless way to say we don't care that my employees has to work on federal holidays to cover their client closure. I had to quit this company for this very reason, we couldn't have decent family vacation as you have only 10days or work on all federal holidays to get those missing vacation. Employer responded with confirmation that 401k after 1year in company without any sense of how absurd it was. I worked with many companies before this is the only company that has zero sense of how bad such policy was and without any hesitation they declare that as a proud benefit. Company does pay 4% of gross pay as employer contribution but it has 3year vesting period. That is you won't get anything if you don't finish 3years of which 1 year you can't contribute to your own 401k. I did says they provide medical insurance, note that employer never mentions what an employee has to pay. Employee has to find and pay for the insurance and company will cover only 70% of the cost (as a reimbursement) and without shame they call this as benefit.

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Scalian Response
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Hi. We are a small team in the US and there is certainly room for improvement but your comments are very categorical and subjective. We are happy to have happy employees in the USA!
2.0
10 Nov 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work-life balance is good, I had to travel virtually 2 hours to get on the client's site but I was never pressured into doing long working hours, my managers have been very fair with me on that front. Because of the big distance between my home and the client's site, extra benefits were quite good as well. The projects Eurogiciel got are pretty interesting but mostly in aeronautics, military and defense sectors, and it can be nice to show off some of the really complex systems one worked on during a project. The company isn't quoted on the financial markets so the economic turn-down didn't really affect them, which is a positive I guess (but it has its downsides, see below)

Cons

Salary is gross. Salaries are low in France generally speaking but here it's ridiculously low, but this is a by-product of the company having actual money in its lockers, the upper management keeps it for itself and doesn't share with the lowly engineers. There is no growth within the company or visibility of where it wants to go. The motto is just to keep the clients happy, your work doesn't really get recommended if you did good though you can get a right thrashing if you're not up to scratch. Employee morale is low, you can be sent to another site for a client way out of your scope overnight (the ming boggles). Overtime isn't paid (or rather they'll do absolutely anything to not pay you for doing overtime) so no incentive to put any extra effort.

5.0
4 Aug 2025

Good Company and People

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Great Colleagues that help you if needed

Cons

- More Get-Together can make a better Team!

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