If you are not Italian no matter how hard you try, you won’t be one of them. You will constantly feel discriminated based on your skin color. From my experience, if you are not Italian no matter you are French, brown, black or Asian they treat you like garbage
No team work. You would be stranded without any help from others... and if you ask that could be used against you that you are incompetent. This company doesn't believe in working collaboratively as it was directly communicated to me once that don't expect team work here and if you don't like this type of culture... go elsewhere!!
Very limited growth opportunity. Company really don't care what your future goals and plans. There are no performance reviews. I had performance reviews and the whole conversation was about how incompetent I am and how my boss is not happy. When I discussed my plans for next year... the reply was “it’s too early to discuss that". Basically this company isn't interested in your professional growth and development.
HR is the most useless department in this company and is very corrupted. While the HR executives are being paid exorbitant amounts of salary... the work is just not there. The overall employee morale is low and if you dare to complain to HR about your experience... that can be used against you in ways you can only imagine. I've personally tried to discuss issues i had with my boss to HR business partner...all I got from him was "I know that's how it is there but sorry we can’t do much, good luck!"
Sense of insecurity - Majority of the people I've met in the company were scared about their jobs and fear that they might get canned the next. Anything you say or do can be used against you.
This company will take you for granted if you offer them over time therefore you will NOT have work life balance. I've put in endless overtime hours which never got paid or approved. Upon request my boss said " oh you shouldn't be asking for overtime since its expected of you to finish all work in time and there no need to put OT" whereas, I was required to work overtime to finish certain reports. BUT if you are Italian you get treated like first class citizens.
Poor benefits - Comparative to other companies in Oil and Gas industry in Canada, Saipem's benefit package is below average
