Philips reviews

1) no space to ideas, no autonomy, the managers are very operational 2) no empowerment 3) no merit implemented with performance evaluation 4) the "calibration" in the performance evaluation appraisal is a jocke, since it does not work at all 5) the HR VP LatAm never has time to talk to managers, only to talk to VP's or other Execs. As a HR person this professional is a good Controller, no more than that! 6) HR area is tvery disorganized, and the Directors and VP`s are hired based on their university background rather than in their experience and behaviors. So, in HR they have a lot of MBA`s guys without any experience, good technical and theorical background but anything more....big mistake 7) the Ethical Line simply does not work. If you call for that line, you will be fire couple days later. It happens a lot in Brazil and South America.

Bureaucracy. Bureaucracy everywhere. From asking for a new mouse to buying a server, you'll face many obstacles along the way, and it'll always take looong time until you get what you need (if it ever happens). Terrible internal processes and tools for tasks and time tracking. Trello? Jira? Not in here! You don't get to work creating native code, but using only internal components of in-house frameworks. It's ok in the beginning of you career, but in the long run you won't actually learn anything new.