Thales reviews

You will be pressured into working almost every weekend. You're family will miss you. You will have no work / life balance, work will be your life. The culture is very subservant to management and having to donate nights and weekends does not seem to bother many of them in the least. Having to work the weekends is mostly a product of bad I&T support and lack of availablity of equipment to work with. There is a huge resource problem here that involves lack of products to test on, lack of computers to work on, lack of network bandwidth, lack of cables and even lack of restroom bandwidth! So they could buy more equipment (which costs money) or they can have you work the weekend (which is free).

- Politics, red tape, and backstabbing from all fronts are normal occurrences ("watch your back always!") - More time is spent on trying to plug holes in processes and systems that are clearly outdated, deficient, and some even ridiculous than actually doing productive work. Clear example: PICF Process ("the new employee's here but there's nothing set up for him - no office, accounts, etc. where's that PICF again?!" - Ingenuity and contemporary thinking are discouraged ("don't rock the boat!") - The culture punishes the exemplary workers by giving them more work until they're fed up, whilst letting others slack off ("you're great at x, i bet you could also do y...z....and a bit of abc") - It's a matrix organization with broken ties across the board. "Silo" effect is predominant. ("That's the other department's responsibility, not ours") - Management of resources is completely out of whack. Savings earned from cutting staff, reducing overtime, etc. are wasted on unnecessary initiatives, continual switching of service providers, audits that never stop and never amount to any changes.