It is a corporation (go and watch Silicon Valley - it's basically Hooli)
No real management (there are obviously managers here but...)
Red tape, a lot of red tape.
Politics and double standards.
Simple, basic projects with either out-dated technology (plenty of legacy code) or over-engineered for no reason. A few project nicknames (given by senior leadership - they can motivate people, can't they): "Technology Graveyard", "Sewage", "Minor Sewage" etc.. You will feel so proud to work in these awesome projects!
No career opportunities - there are special people with special careers and there is the rest (again double standards).
Brainwashing.
Let's start with recruitment process: there is no coding test, you will get a random set of questions (copied and pasted from the Internet).
Once you get in, you most likely going to end up in a random place (which may or may not be suited for you ). You may be a programmer with obviously no interests and no knowledge about infrastructure and you can ended up... in server support. Front-end developers are asked to do back-end tasks and vice versa. There is no talent management. You can also join a project that is just approaching its end (management and everyone knows about it), there is no funding, no work, the team is going to be disband soon. You will end up watching online training for weeks with no plans what to do with you. No one is responsible for anything. On the other hand, you may be lucky and join a good project - but there is no guarantee and the "good" projects are scarce.
Loads of lies: you will be told about how things are great, you'll get a lot of empty promises, how awesome is the company, you will get brainwashed - so from the outside it looks to be a good place to work - this is only a facade, artificial image created by poor management. Projects are badly managed, no one really tracks your skills or career needs. There are projects with basically no work. People there are sitting writing one line of code in 2, 3 weeks time waiting for another "great" opportunity.
Most of the technology here is out-dated. There are obviously buzzwords used all the time: we are IT (not really), we are innovative (yeah right :) ), cloud, docker, agile, AWS and so on but the actual projects don't come near anything new. For example, there was a company-wide GIT initiative - yet most of the projects are using SVN or even CVS (yes - you read that right)! All new project should be GIT based, yet very few are. If you ask why - don't do it - you are on the blacklist.
Another good example how bad the company is IT-wise, is the actual exit interview process. All people leaving are asked to fill in a form where you put your name, job role, salary, starting and leaving dates etc - all information IS already in the same system! What's the point? Duplication of manual work and lack of automation is astonishing! If you ask why, you get usual blah, blah, blah... lies and silly excuses. And that's just the top of an iceberg.
Look at the LIT website - it is very basic - like all projects inside the company. There are 500+ employees and only 2 or 3 web designers. There are people who have skills, knowledge, and passion (no doubt about it) to do or even learn web design yet... they are asked to sit in the silly, retarded projects instead of utilising their time and skills to build something cool and state-of-the-art. The actual design work has been out-sourced and then people are being told either they don't have skills (yes the management "knows" how to motivate people) or you have to focus on doing some "real" (read: worthless) project work (which actually doesn't consume whole day). Lies, lies, lies and empty promises all the time.
Did I mention that this super-awesome, great place to work (irony again) so-called IT company is giving low-spec, locked-down, Windows 32bit laptops?
There are no real career opportunities. Overall, you can read management lies about X number of people getting promoted each year. Well yes, you can have plenty of graduates who get promoted to engineers. Then people get stuck in their projects for a couple of years and... you will get a few people that for no reason get promoted. Same goes with the bonus each year and pay increases. Double standards everywhere. If you apply for internal job, you have to go through recruitment process and even if you are trying to get the same job in a row, with the same specs - one time all requirements are solid - no exceptions, while the other time all rules can be quickly adjusted so "the right" candidate will get the job. If you complain, you will end up on the blacklist, management will tell you a lot of lies (again) and basically, you will go back to your out-dated project - while the special people will get the better work obviously. Whole career progress is unfair and not transparent. There are plenty of people who work hard and get no recognition.
Look at the most recent reviews of LIT - there is definitely a trend emerging there. Good people are getting pissed off and move on.
LIT is very disappointing.
