Continental reviews

1. Really cheap company. Because this company is an automobile company. Then control cost is the first thing they think. Then when they try to hire somebody. They want to pay the candidate salary below industry level, even lower than your salary now lol. And they will give you really variety confusing benefits that make you think you'll earn more in final. That's fake. Never trust them. 2. Vague goals. At beginning, they open a division called intelligent transpiration system (ITS) as a start up without any ideas. But they think they can open a billion business because they have a really large base company in the world. But the reality is that base company becomes real obstacle in your regular life. For example, when you try to use some cloud service as in other company. The engineer can choose any cloud server they want to (AWS GC etc.) But in this magic company, you have to write a report that explains why you need AWS rather than other cloud provider to the a department. They will take 2 months (even longer) to decide if this is right. Even a USB cable. You cannot buy it directly. But the base company always wants this division has more and more revenue. Then the management fake everything. 3. They only hire politician in their management team. Your boss only care about if he can pass the review. And if he cannot pass the review, then you will become the unlucky guy. My ever two old co-workers, they just left the college as a new college grad engineer. But they left company, cause they don't have enough performance after they join team 4 or 5 months. And they almost didn't get any tutoring and help when they were in the team. When one of that coworkers find a new job, he even told me, he was really afraid to ask questions in new team. And his new teammates cannot understand why he is so shame to ask questions lol. 4. Bad culture. Because this is a fake start up. Everybody's work will not influence their final salary. Then there is no co-work, no communication in the team. No body knows how to compromise in the work. And the most interesting thing that I cannot understand is there is almost no benefit to fight in work. But there is huge amount politics fights in team.

- Very political working environment. More than half of the time you are dealing with politics just to protect yourself, leading to reduced productivity. - A lot of policies are not implemented properly by the HR, leaving with lots of gray areas. - Pathetic increment, often not enough to cover the current inflation rate. - Inflated monthly salary figure due to annualized AWS, so no more 13th month lump sum. Your monthly salary may impair your chances of getting pay increment if you want to look for better career opportunities outside of Continental. - Shrinking bonuses, due to the nonsensical introduction of the Variable Compensation Scheme recently, that only benefits the upper management. Count yourself very luckily if you are able get 1full month bonus. - "Mission impossible" workload amount. A lot of managers are oblivious to the workload situation of the engineers, since they are not the one who are doing the actual work. - Unrealistic KPIs. - Performance appraisals are often done in emotional manner, not in objective manner. If your boss doesn't like you, you are pretty much screwed. - Promotions highly depends on relationship with your bosses. - Not the place for people who is eager to climb up the corporate ladder. - Highly questionable leadership from the management in Singapore. - Majority of the managers are highly resistant to change, not receptive of new ideas. - A lot of incompetent managers who likes to micromanage their engineers. - Too many "yes sir" or "yes madam" people in the management, who anyhow accept change requests or additional workloads from customers, Germany side, etc. - Recording hours is a total waste of time. Does not reflect the actual man hours logged in actual projects that are already done for the month. All the figures are have to be fabricated just to please the management.