Don't judge a book by its cover. - Anonymous employee FOO Employee Review

1.0
29 Jan 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good reputation in Lebanon and in the region - Company with reputable profile, big investors - Working for big clients in the region - Flexible working hours - Very young employees - On going recruitment for new positions - Company that can attract candidates

Cons

- Lack of focus on a true employee experience - Day-to-day operation is far from glamorous - Company that cannot retain employees - No clear management and leadership almost absent from higher management - No intention of helping an employee to grow. Frustration on daily tasks to meet client's due date - Some managers demonstrate a lack of respect for employees - Issues raised to higher management and never taken into consideration unless it feeds their own personal targets and needs which leads to unhappy employees and teams - Company rarely takes in consideration employees complaints - Not enviable workplace culture - No benefits, just the basics - No clear job descriptions - Irrelevant Job titles - Barely leaves on time, with no overtime - Performance assessment and management guidebook for staff: Doesn't exists and not taken very seriously - Very weak recruitment and hiring process: Leads to hiring a lot of incompetent people - Prioritizing employees based on the number of years they have been in the company and not on the progress of their work - Internal decisions regarding employees are made based on emotions - No encouragement from the company to participate in workshops, conferences or even networking - The people who may be brilliant at solving technical issues may not bethe best candidates for management.

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5.0
24 Oct 2020
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Pros

Great company and professional poeple

Cons

There is no cons in this company

2.0
19 Jan 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- The company has a good reputation in the local and regional market. - Great exposure to new technology. - Great experience with big projects for big clients in the region. - Innovation is constant to keep up with market. - New features introduced on regular basis. - Relaxed work environment. - Easy to access office location. - Flexible working hours - Friendly management - Available work from home option for appropriate cases - Causal dress code - No strict procedures

Cons

- No clear hierarchy at work. - lack of proper management, decisions are individual and always go back to one or two persons. - Lack of formalized procedures. - Lack of formalized workflows. - Project assignment and decisions can be overlapping. - Job description is not clear and job titles are not precise (sometimes irrelevant). - Work environment is not homogeneous. Recruitment is mostly functional based on the person's ability to perform a specific set of tasks without considering his ability to fit in the present environment. - Low company culture. - Big but crowded workspace. Can be very distracting sometimes and uncomfortable. - Lack of future vision and career path for the personnel. - Lack of salary plans. - Frequent hiring mistakes. Rushing into hiring often brings incompetent employees or employees with conflicting values or conflicting working methods. - No documentation available of the company policies, employee benefits, responsibilities, do-s and don't-s... - Performance review is not serious and only done on yearly basis. Consequently employees cannot measure their strength and weakness to take advantage of the strong skills that they have and improve the weaker ones. - Objectives and goals are not clear for the employees and for the company. - Constantly changing direction in management which becomes very confusing for the employees. - No propper training and follow up. Lack of leadership from the higher positions. - Very pressuring work in terms of time of execution. - Weak communication between the employees. - Poor office facilities ( small kitchen, small fridge, narrow desks, no drawers, unorganized cables...).

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