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Soldato
Need job.
Was at a recent acquisition in Madrid and salaries over here are in the gutter. Can barely afford to build my house as it is!
Don't even start me on Murican Companies, the amount of BS is unreal... I'm currently in a process with a company based in Murica, the whole team I would be working with are based in US, they require me to come in to their UK office to speak to a person I'll most likely never interact with, due to time zone difference and 'busy schedules' they now want to break one stage into two parts. I'm currently on stage 2 in which I was told there will be 4 more, if one gets split the 4 will turn into 5.
They demand you to be in the office 5 days a week during probation period and afterwards 3 days or more, whilst the rest of the team inc. my manager are in US. What's the point? Serious question.
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Soldato
I'd give up, a company that ridiculous will always be ridiculous.
Soldato
Oh yeah, that doesn't sound sensible at all!
We don't have a head office as such, as i work at a portfolio level, and so when not at home it's a case of working from one of the individual entities, in this case the UK business which just makes sense to get together as a portfolio team. This is very typical north american attitudes though. Doesn't blend well with reserved UK based finance people who don't like talking about themselves!
Laptop and badge handed back in. 6 months garden leave here we come. Documents signed. It's go time bitches
I'm having seconds thoughts, everyone is telling me to avoid, their salary range is £15-20k more than other companies I'm in the process with... Last time when I ignored the red flags and went for the cash, it didn't end well. So I should probably listen to my gut and other peoples advice on this one!
The work I do, everything can be done remotely and there's no real need to meet in-person. This role included, all people I would be working with are not based in the UK.
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Well module 2 assignment handed in yesterday. No I see people with AI Management badges from IBM/Google in LinkedIn - I bet they didn't have formally written academic assignments with Harvard referencing each week, in addition to a separate test with 7-10 hours of material to study before you start on any additional assignment research and writing! The result is between 24-36 hours if you're looking for top marks.
The conclusion from my fellow students is that it's stepped up a notch in the last module with some finding the amount of information difficult as it needs processing and thinking.
This last module was a pain - I had a long weekend in France and food poisoning to boot. Luckily I don't have work running rough shot over the top.
The conclusion from my fellow students is that it's stepped up a notch in the last module with some finding the amount of information difficult as it needs processing and thinking.
This last module was a pain - I had a long weekend in France and food poisoning to boot. Luckily I don't have work running rough shot over the top.
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Exactly this....
I so hate situations like this - dealing with companies that provide a service to the business - call up X and they say "oh you need to raise a work order with Y", call Y and they are like "We'll raise a work order but this is something you need to raise with X - do you need their number?", go back to X with the work order and they say "We'll get company Z to look into it", hour later Z calls to say this is something X needs to deal with, call back X and explain the whole things and they are like "hang on", put on hold for 10-15 minutes "OK that is fixed"... whhhyyyyyy... problem is short of getting in contact with the CEO directly no one really has oversight of the whole situation so it'll just go on like that indefinitely and/or until someone high up the company encounters it for themselves.
EDIT: Best bit is the worst example of it happened to me on Friday, my boss then ran into the same issue on Monday and wouldn't believe me until they'd gone through the whole rigmarole themselves while I'm standing there raising my eyebrows as each stage goes down as I said it would, their only comment being "how ridiculous".
EDIT: Best bit is the worst example of it happened to me on Friday, my boss then ran into the same issue on Monday and wouldn't believe me until they'd gone through the whole rigmarole themselves while I'm standing there raising my eyebrows as each stage goes down as I said it would, their only comment being "how ridiculous".
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Annoyance it is. #yoda
I hate it when two parties simply down tools pointing fingers, every time it's the same - a call, politely indicate that finding an objective solution is why the call is being called or the reading of the riot act will ensue, finger points, reading of riot act, sequentially walking the problem and problem identified and solved.
One time I had this and it turned out to be the southern firewall in the south of the US had an old patch level. Yet the same people on the call were in the very long email chain.
Another time it was procurement, procurement outsourced partner and a company in the US about the basic NDA and T&C liabilities.. one CF call, turns out that an in country partner could be used and problem solved but not until after weeks of email tennis and individual calls.
People get stuck in the mud.
I hate it when two parties simply down tools pointing fingers, every time it's the same - a call, politely indicate that finding an objective solution is why the call is being called or the reading of the riot act will ensue, finger points, reading of riot act, sequentially walking the problem and problem identified and solved.
One time I had this and it turned out to be the southern firewall in the south of the US had an old patch level. Yet the same people on the call were in the very long email chain.
Another time it was procurement, procurement outsourced partner and a company in the US about the basic NDA and T&C liabilities.. one CF call, turns out that an in country partner could be used and problem solved but not until after weeks of email tennis and individual calls.
People get stuck in the mud.
Soldato
Did a psychometric test once, and refused every similar test, every single other time - what a relic of a bygone era that show you nothing useful.
lol, about 20 years ago when I was just getting started, I applied for a junior network engineer role at Capital One in Nottingham, turned up and had to do a psychometric test in a room with all of the other candidates, like - everybody all competing for the same job, doing the same test at the same time.
At that age I was like a greyhound going through stuff like that, I weirdly enjoyed it and got it right - but that's the only time I ever had anything like that.
Soldato
I'm the complete wrong personality type for those sorts of tests, mind you if I had to do a group interview like that I'd have also walked out
I'm the complete wrong personality type for those sorts of tests, mind you if I had to do a group interview like that I'd have also walked out
I wonder why people complain that they never get any innovation..
I have done a few. I used to see how quickly I could do it, or answer in the most erratic way. The follow up questions from the interviewer afterwards are always far more fun that way