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Bureaucracy, Slow Pcs, Bad Management

Software Developer
Former Employee
Worked at Accenture for 6 years
July 11, 2020
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Many team building activities. Free online trainings. Smart and helpful people. Always have something to do. Good for newbies (only up to 3 years). Average compensation.

Cons

For a company branding itself as NEW, it moves like an old turtle due to excessive bureaucracy.

Access to GitHub is blocked.

PCS are painfully slow. Unless you have a good manager, if you are not SSE level, you are out of luck. Any decrease in performance due to this will still be blamed on you.

Need approval for every frickin' software you install on your workstation. They only allow installs from their own software repository, which contains very limited/outdated tools.

Need approvals for your overtime to be credited. Ups will first get approval from the client (taking away time from actual work). No wonder people no longer bother to file it.

Broken performance evaluation system. They set priorities for you, and even if you do them (and more), you can still get passed up for promotion versus someone who didn't actually do it. (This is a very common issue). Some of these entail activities outside normal hours. No wonder employees no longer want to do it. The situation is so bad they are now REQUIRING projects to send someone to do it. (As if coercion will help).

Some managers will assign you to a task with no training at all, and when you are doing poorly (even when you are doing your best given the situation), they will throw you under the bus. One of the most disheartening things I've ever seen.

No transparency on financials of project/industry group, making it difficult to gauge if collectively we are doing a good job or not.

Only way up is management.

Advice to Management

Make it actually possible for people to do work.

Buy the best equipment. Set clear priorities for them that when fulfilled will actually be rewarded.

Actually listen. Don't throw them under the bus; defend them. These are hardworking people, and when they fail, it means YOU failed.

Don't require additional work with no compensation. Do away with unneeded bureaucracy.

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