Managers and directors don't care about work life balance. No one is working overtime but they make sure that during those 8h of work they squeeze the last drop of energy out of you. Abandon all personal projects as you will feel exhausted every day and the weekend is not enough to recharge. Moreover, you have to consider holidays and the fact that you are never allowed to take holidays in the last month of each fiscal quarter and not at all in Q4. This means that you cannot take holidays in March, June, September, October, November and December. Yeah, you heard that well. They only care about the numbers and you should make sure you have no urgency during those months cause you're gonna have to make it disappear. There is no understanding from top management about these and won't accept any unplanned holidays. Should you go against them via alternative means, good luck, they'll make sure to make your life a living hell until you resign or find ways to fire you. You can be the best in the business, if once you simply go against their decision, you're on the blacklist. Even if they can hardly keep new employees because the work volume is huge and few are handling it, they would put the whole team to back up for an empty position than rather be more understanding towards their employees lifes and show some flexibility. They don't expect you to have 'moments' that just happen in your life because it's standing in the way of their profits. At times I'm wondering if Veeam is ever testing those directors for behavioural disorders.
The agenda is full with trainings about their products and you have to attend but at the same time, the work volume it's the same. So it's up to you how you're gonna manage the same quantity of work in less time. I won't even mention the weekly checkups with team and manager because they like micro-management and they're control freaks.
