Pros
- Good facilities even though sometimes it rains inside, there's a small ceiling leak
Cons
- I had to make my personal money available to cover for professional expenses when travelling to Paris and I was only reimbursed after 2 months.
- No overtime pay or compensatory rest when you are spending most of your Sundays at the airport because of business trips.
- While some people had Porto Business School and certified Scrum Master Trainings, I was sent to Paris for several weeks, something that had a high negative impact on my personal life, to have training in Natixis' proprietary tools. This kind of training only benefits the company, the acquired knowledge becomes totally useless for the employee once he leaves the company since those tools aren't used anywhere else.
- There's the possibility of working remotely from home once a week but they won't pay you the meal allowance
- Obsolete and outdated technology (Prolog and waterfall development in 2019).
- Incompetent people are being hired and the colleagues have to fix their mess. At a certain point my work was deleted and I had to redo it from scratch. Competent people's efforts are not recognized.
- The environment in the department where I worked is absolutely awful. Some people are constantly telling lies and talking behind other people's backs.
- The company gave tickets to a music festival during an after work event. The ticket distribution was completely unprofessional, they didn't ask for any ID. I wasn't able to attend the (non-mandatory) event for personal reasons so HR told me to pick up my ticket the next day. I found out that someone had impersonated me to STEAL my ticket. This happened to several people. There were absolutely no consequences for the thieves.
- Only employees with children are eligible to receive circus tickets at Christmas. So people with children in their thirties receive multiple (3 or more) tickets while people with 9-year old nephews receive nothing.
- Sometimes Natixis has a very small number of tickets for the employees to attend tech conferences. The tickets are almost always given to the same people despite the fact that the company has around 500 employees
- Desktops are being replaced by more modern laptops and dual screens are being replaced by wide, curve monitors. There is absolutely no criteria to deliver the new equipment. People that joined after me received it. People that joined before me received it. Some co-workers even received the new equipment on day one. I was one of Natixis first employees and I left the company without receiving the new equipment. The work conditions, rights and duties are not the same to everyone.
