Horrible for foreigners (SSC in Budapest) - Accounts Payable Roche Employee Review

2.0
12 May 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits for Hungarian reality. Most of the TLs are horrible with people - just a few of them are good enough to list them in the 'pros' section, however they are pushed down by the higher management. Maybe the experience is different if you're a native Hungarian speaker.

Cons

Barely anybody speaks English. Most of the employees, including payroll, do not speak English, even though I was told otherwise on the job interview, to the point where I was told multiple times to 'ask a colleague to translate' some official communication. Lots of career development is based on who was your university colleague or who your partner is. Management lies, often publicly pretends they didn't hear about an issue while in reality it was raised with them a couple of weeks previously. They behave patronisingly, lie about the salaries (which are very poor comparing to other corporations in the city). Staff changes all the time and is not respected. I spent min. 10h at the office every day - out of which 9h was regular, as it included an obligatory 1h break. Horrible life-work balance.

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Cons

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Pros

Excellent Employee Benefits and beautiful facilities

Cons

As a seasoned quality professional I could not recommend enough that you stay far away from this company. The entire Global Quality program is run on gaslighting. Procedures are vague and cryptic and the management solution is always to just copy and paste from another site. You will be told to "speak up" and its an open and collaborative environment, but that could not be further from the truth. Roche is a toxic environment that is run by cliques that pick and choose who gets to succeed. If you dare to speak up you're targeted and ostracized. If you want to succeed there you just need to nod head in agreement and try to follow the cryptic task that is gonna set you up for failure anyway. Success is completely contingent on how well you gossip and politic. The "Branchberg Mafia" is run on emotions and direction will change day to day depending on how leadership feels that day. Again I recommend looking somewhere else if you're looking to make an impact and enjoy a challenge. If you enjoy being a sheep or like weak and emotional management. This is the place for you.

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