Worst place ever - Project Manager ISBAN Employee Review

1.0
Jan 7, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

During 2010-12 use to be a good place to move to new countries: UK, Spain, Poland...Not anymore.

Cons

-- Worst management ever; don't care about people, just task focused. -- US workforce is formed is formed by cheap Spanish and Mexicans that depends on their visa. Underpaid --> ISBAN takes advantage of this to pay less than other companies -- they have "partners" that really do pure body selling of even cheaper resources. -- No clear strategy, keep changing senior managers all time, people move to the bank (customer) or other country as soon as they can. -- overtime (of course, not paid) -- lack of training -- tools and computers are from past century. If your laptop breaks, you're by yourself,no one is going to fix it. we ended bringing our personal laptops.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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