Uni Systems Reviews

4.0

86% would recommend to a friend

(172 total reviews)
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Yiannis Loumakis

93% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Uni Systems has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 172 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Uni Systems employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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172 reviews
2.0
22 Feb 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Pay on time & ok salary for Greece. This is not a benefit for any other company outside of Greece. * Some good European projects, although the way Unisystems works they mess the projects and anyone who tries to do some good technical work

Cons

* Unisystems carries the immature, problematic, harassing Greek culture of cronyism, nepotism and communism. Everyone trying to take the other out, but playing the etiquette of being a "nice person" to the point where they believe it. * The culture's motto is "be dependent, do not be better" * Slander those they are jealous of: If you appear to be more skilled than others, everyone starts gossiping and judging, like the bad jealous students do in class, and like it is a small jealous village * They like to judge others than speak of themselves * No rules for harassment. Whoever can harass others without looking upset wins * Immature manners, shallow, basic personality, and not even realisation of what professional attitude is * Ignorance with confidence: It is the case where really they don't know what they don't know and leave no space for doubt that they don't Staff get insulted when asked to follow the process. As classic Greeks, they work under the nepotism and cronyism. * Staff do not know what being professional is - following processes, having a professional attitude, not making things personal, and following a dress code They think that being professional attitude means to talk in a passive aggressive, controlling attitude. Dress code is for them a mystic word that most may never understand. Like in all of Greece, they confuse dress code with wealth. They think that the rich wear suits & ties, and the poor wear sports clothes. * Everything is unorganized, from organograms to plans, to desk locations. For example, rooms and desks do not have labels or numbers, so it is complex to even locate where others are * Teams are unorganised. There are no team structures - this is the classic Greek cronyism. People who previously worked as managers were employed as consultants and placed at employee level, even when the teams they worked for needed to have leads and managers. Most of them left. * The meeting booking app does not work correctly, so booking meeting rooms is a guess Examples of the employee behaviour: - Someone would come every day and try to call me names like "Hey big guy" "Huge guy", even though we were not friends and I did not reply to him. He would keep doing so for weeks, without seeming to realise he was being awkward. - Another day I would find the same person searching through my staff. - Other staff would occasionally try to take equipment from my desk that apparently everyone is charged for, as if it is theirs. For such matters, the manager blamed me back for, because this is the easier solution. - The IT support desk of Unisystems also blames when making requests, by saying "it is their fault". They do not log tickets, and are far from any sense of an IT helpdesk in any other company. - The last days before I left, a lady who just managed to not speak to me for over a year decided to do so. She thought that it was a good idea to start criticising me after having already left. She sat persistently while I was having lunch impulsively asking why I had left, and counter-judging with further personal questions, getting angrier and angrier. She eventually convinced herself with her questions that I did not like the company. I had to tell her to leave as she just didn't get that I was not interested any more. She missed to realise that she hadn't spoken for a year, never been even friendly on basic level, and her own behaviour was a showcase of why someone would want to leave. This ignorance and denial is typical Unisystems behaviour. - The manager told others that I was leaving within approximately 15 minutes. This is the level of confidentiality of Unisystems, generally speaking. Soon a group of people started questioning me at lunch even though I said it was not their job, and most had not spoken for a year.

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Uni Systems Response
8y
Dear Reviewer, We would like to thank you for taking the time from your busy schedule to write down this interesting review and we regret to hear that you had such an uncomfortable experience. Our corporate values and culture of pluralism, professionalism and positivism allow us to take such reviews seriously and to that end, we take this as an opportunity to respond accordingly. Our presence in the market for the past 50+ years has armed us with unparalleled experience and knowledge of both IT and business landscape, which led to the Company’s rapid expansion to the international marketplace. Apparently, this has resulted in extensive recruitment needs, in a process that in a few cases presented several shortcomings, even though our HR department makes a great effort to be there for each and every one of us. Self-criticism is essential in a corporate environment. Definitely, this expansion process is the outcome of hard work coupled with teamwork and specialized IT experience demonstrated by our high caliber professionals that manage high-tech & complex IT projects across Europe. We are honored to be part of this team, our UniQue team. We embrace diversity and open communication and one of our corporate attributes is that people from all managerial levels are easily accessible. We aim to get things done and we are open to new approaches that could improve our daily life at the office. And we appreciate criticism that could be translated into actions. After all, our 50+ years in the market and the transformation process we have been through, from a domestic IT company to an international player, can only prove that changes are more than welcome. Our annual internal satisfaction and evaluation surveys, along with the feedback from our people -Glassdoor comments included- are our guide to a better way of working and we commit to make every effort to meet the expectations of our employees. We appreciate your advice to management, we are pretty sure that our top management will take it into consideration. Again, we appreciate your time and we wish you all the best to your future endeavors.
1.0
3 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company recruits smart people; The majority of employees are young, hard-working, sociable and therefore there is a positive vibe in the daily work routine.

Cons

The only goal is to work as long as it takes to hit a deadline. You will work nights, weekends without pay and if you dont hit your impossible deadline you get yelled, cursed etc. Projects are poorly designed and developed with no focus on quality. If you travel abroad watch your balance sheet,. The company's policy is to have cheap production regardless if they burn out their employees.

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Uni Systems Response
7y
Dear Reviewer, We would like to thank you for taking the time to write down this review, which we take as an opportunity to further improve our working environment, a constant commitment of our HR department. As you are aware, our growth for the past 10 years that goes hand-in-hand with our expansion to the international marketplace has resulted in extensive recruitment and we are proud to work jointly with a team of talented and high caliber professionals, which are able to manage innovative, and complex IT projects across Europe. This process of growth and expansion can sometimes be challenging while shortcomings may appear along the way. At UniSystems, which is a project-based and results oriented organization we work closely in teams to ensure employee fulfilment, success of our projects and client satisfaction, yet, we have to respect the frameworks, deadlines and liabilities of our projects. Our ubiquitous HR department is open to new approaches that aim at improving our day-to-day life at work and to that end welcomes constructive criticism and above all fruitful suggestions. Again, we appreciate your time and we wish you all the best to your future endeavors.
1.0
2 Apr 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Gain good SW engineering experience on some IT tools, especially if you are entry-level.

Cons

-Long hours, even on weekends -Low pay considering the work and amount of overitme -Bad or non-existent communication from management -No room for advancement -Very basic benefits package

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