Pros
Only pro: good chairs, free coffee, water. But this is irrelevant if you read the cons.
Cons
I was very happy when I was selected for an interview - only the chance for working for "such a big company" made me proud, job description seemed perfect, salary - not extraordinary but appealing for a youngster. Long story short - noticed some very interesting things even if the job ad specified: "salary is X euro, meal tickets" - when they made the job offer after the interview and the test, the salary was smaller, and INCLUDED the meal tickets in it. Not negociable. I was also announced we have to work on Saturdays as well because "there is a lot of work to do". Nothing in contract about this. AND there is also a week probation - WITHOUT BEING PAID . This part is illegal. If I was older, i would have left in that second but I was naive and still had the impression "this is a big company". The work was extremely repetitive. The "trainer" made sure I have enough work - basically very long "tasks" and they daily target was tasks/day. The team leader was extremely rude, spying on everyone - keyloggers and security cameras with microphones (?!) and in the team there were some "flatterers"- my "trainer" among them- who happily notified the team leader about how we don;t understand (we were 3 newstarters) and how we do nothing. In the meantime, we were doing HIS tasks. The shift was 8 hours + lunch break but we were informed that we cannot leave the office until we finish our daily target. This was humanly impossible - I will not say more because it's too much to describe. Trust me, it was. So this made the working day to be 11-12 hours + 5-6 on Saturday + things to do at home (software reviews, if we didn;t to them, we didn;t get full salary) I left after 3 months realizing that if I keep this pace, I will go nuts/sick. I was arriving home late at night, had a quick shower and got to sleep. Day by day. Only thing I got from management - same bad redneck attitude. Last but not least, the problems caused by this infamous company continued. My self confidence was down - it was a time until I realized they are the ones to blame, not me - and I was naive enough to put this job in my CV. Which made interviewers, when I was applying for jobs, to distrust me. Nobody leaves that early from a job. Self confidence -1 again. After I deleted this from my CV, I got a job, MUCH more complex than Softpedia, IT related and looks like I'm good enough for it in the past 2 years.
