1) NO cab facility even for odd hours, no food reimbursement for late stays, no local HR handbook or no inheritance from UK HR handbook either. In my experience, the managers should facilitate such things for their teams; here, they don't help you in such matters and HR is a dead-end for everything.
2) all talk, no walk: I asked a simple question about the local HR handbook; in response, HR gave me only angry responses and an ongoing grudge in the long run. All I wanted to know about the health insurance benefits for my family. I still curse the day. Can you imagine any MNC without health insurance benefits for employees ?
3) Shocker: The HR promotes casteism in the office. I was at the receiving end. :(
Managers are silent spectators (helpless or shameless!).
4) Even the lunch party places are consulted and APPROVED by HR (an open secret in the office). Other than technical stuff, the managers are just placeholders; no issue redressal.
5) Tax saving plans are promised at the time of joining to attract you by the HR. But each month, you will have to go through the same ordeal with HR, in person, to get your bills cleared and in 2-3 months, you will ultimately decide not to save any tax whatsoever!
6) In a company of some repute, if you go onsite, then it is an unsaid rule that a daily expenditure amount (per-diem) is given to the employee. The chance to UK travel is a common promise at the time of hiring, but you will not get it for one or the other stupid reasons. If by any chance, you get to travel, you will have to provide the bill of every single penny spent by you, otherwise, that amount will be deducted from your salary. Employees who have visited onsite are more worried about not misplacing bills, rather than being focussed on the work, they have been called for.