- 401k practices are horrible. You will not get matched until mid December. It's a policy that I am sure saves the company money but also builds a great level of distrust. If you are fired, laid off or leave before mid December you get no match at all.
- Reimbursements for travel have become ridiculously slow. This would not be a problem normally except the company requests you get a charge card (not credit) that is tied to your personal credit. There are people in the company who are now out thousands of dollars and there is no indication if and when they will be paid back for their corporate travel expenses they had to cover out of pocket to maintain their credit rating. For a company this large it is unacceptable.
- The organization is organizationally confused. Lots and lots of Chiefs but very little clear direction at a more granular level. Certain business lines battle for the exact same piece of ground. One of the lines, in particular, is cut throat and I am afraid will lead to more and more client mistrust. Just bad business.
- An addendum to the previous mentioned quagmire, there are lots of H1B visas with aggressive attitudes overselling into existing clients. They are bullies and horrible businessmen. If I hear one more of them declare themselves the king of all they survey during or after a meeting when, in reality, they are nothing more than a salesman, I will scream. All of these guys have spectacular titles but none of them actually are in charge of anything and are nothing more than account managers. But without an organizational structure to rein them in, you almost can't blame them. An overpaid account manager is still an account manager and that needs to be made clear. I am pretty sure, within the company, everyone knows the business line I speak of.
- ATOS is not strictly a tech organization. They mostly are an organizer of technology and they do a good job of getting good people on contracts to do the work. But ATOS is first and foremost about sales and it shows up when employee quarterly reviews are performed. A good portion of the review process is sales centric. It forces high level techs to becomes salesmen, essentially, which seems like a misuse of talent.
- The HR and Employee systems are antiquated, convoluted and cumbersome and require you to use a browser technology that is outdated and somewhat insecure.
- No ATOS, you really should not outsource every critically vital internal system to India (or in source them to India either because it is cheaper). The people who maintain these systems and processes are rude, thick and condescending. It shouldn't take me more than a week or two to change something as simple as a passcode or one of the many ridiculous system codes. The help desk is hilariously inept.