Pros
The work environment and friendliness among colleagues made Suvoda initially a decent work place. The catered lunches were a great perk when the quality and portion size was decent.
Cons
As indicated by the descriptors "initially" and the past tense "were", the minimal perks of working at Suvoda were short lived. Very soon the toxicity of this work environment, hostility of colleagues, apathy of management and pretenses of the so called "perks" shone through clearly. First I must say that while there are some hard working, collaborative, wonderful people at Suvoda many are cliquey passive aggressive and unhelpful reminiscent of high school. Management spearheads this mentality by belittling and minimizing complaints, favoring those who fall in line, and projecting blame about the work environment onto workers under the guise of "not aligning with Suvoda values". As an Associate Project Manager you will not learn any skills applicable to project management, you are doing glorified paper work. You are also expected to double as call support associates assisting end users which Suvoda was not forthcoming about during onboarding. While it's presented as a minimally involved robust learning tool to understand systems, in reality you will be taking calls and answering support emails daily which eats into project work time. You will be assigned shifts that will conflict with you ability to take time off for holiday or when sick. The "training" for this additional role can barely be called training but you are expected to fumble through and assist users which often times critical real time problems. While some of the Customer Care Specialists are helpful, they are 1) trained on HOW to trainAPMs 2) understaffed and overworked so they often cannot help. However, the silos at the work place sometimes lend to some of the members being unhelpful, hostile and overly critical when you are simply there to help. Also, I have to emphasize that the PTO advertised is NOT accurate. Disappointingly, positive reviews here are also falsely advertising it. While yes you are given 30 days...they do NOT include national holidays. You must use these days for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Labor Day etc. Given that there are 12 national holidays (on average) you truly get 18 PTO days. 18 days is still slightly above the general average of 15 so I don't know why the misleading 30 days continues to be touted around. Catered lunches have decreased in quality and the portions can be very small. This has been brought up to management on several occasions and the reception has been apathetic and negative, same as every other constructive feedback given about call support, lack of training, lack of hard skills and professional growth. While working with many people in a young age group may initially seem like a plus, it also creates a lack of maturity and professionalism within teams. This contributes to the turn over of mature experienced employees and responsibility and power of managers if continuously increasing when they have little to no leadership training to begin with. To all job candidates ESPECIALLY recent college graduates, this company and specifically this position as an Associate Project Manager is one I would strongly NOT recommend. You will not gain transferable skills and you are not receiving any true "perks".