10 reasons not to work in large corporations

UPD. Text updated August 6, 2019.

1. low income

If corporations want to see you specifically, it will offer favorable conditions to lure from the current place of work. Those who sends itself resume and claims to be a linear position, as a rule, do not offer much.

And so you have to be grateful for what you have called the company with the name - this can be considered a verbatim quote of HR managers in some corporations. In addition, the income level is often influenced by the experience of work in this company. To get off to a decent supplement, it is necessary to work continuously, and in the early years to be content with little.

Finally, in corporations generally acts rigid staffing. to you increased salaryIt is not enough to try and be the best. You need to move up the career ladder, but this can be a problem.

One day I was called to work in the largest media holding. Estimated salary puzzled: it was half of the average for the industry in Moscow. In response to the bewilderment I was told that the work itself in a holding company - luck and chance, and I should be grateful to them.

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Mary refused to work in a corporation

2. Predictable and slow career progression

Corporation - a large object with a huge number of employees. The number of heads of strikes, and behind them are more deputies deputy heads.

Accordingly, you clearly see all the steps career ladder. That's just to climb up, will have to wait until they are freed. To increase one can hope for years and the vacancy will be a lot of applicants.

Even if you're a genius, your talents to the top of the mountain is not visible, so that the ascent will not be easy.

3. Bureaucracy

Working in a corporation, you will learn how to write a memo on memos and begin skillfully fill in all the official papers. In this there is a certain sense. Because of the branched structure of large companies is almost impossible in another way to reach out to neighboring departments, and especially get what they want from them. Therefore it is necessary to write official letters and send them, referring to copies of your general supervisor, so that the recipient had no opportunity to come off.

In addition, official correspondence helps to absolve themselves of responsibility for the plucked deadlines and poor performance of the job for which you are responsible not. If anything, you have the evidence. However, this does not always help.

Six of the eight hours I had to write the system area, to sign their hulls have responsible people - with the electronic confirmation was not enough, we had to walk. And most importantly, this was not at all necessary. When I realized that I'm here, rather high-paid courier, he escaped.

Natalia, he left the corporation after two weeks

4. Questionable responsibilities

Your services will excite someone only if you need to urgently dismiss. Basically, everything will rest on the proverbial team spirit. If the department carries out a plan or do something cool, then praise be the entire department. Even if it is only your merit. On each of the next stage of these achievements will join heads of departments and all sorts. So that in the end everything will look the same lads and it is a shame.

But with the responsibility for the failures of things a little differently. If this is your blunder, then first you will get a reprimand as part of the team, and then the individual - and not only from the authoritiesBut also from those who have suffered because of you. If you are in no way to blame, you will still be punished.

The first month of the corporation I spent on it to find out how things work, who is doing what. Why does this matter to go to this man, not to do so. Private Hell - really achieve something from another person, especially if you're new. At best, you will ignore, and at worst - will go to the general with a bunch of questions. This is all the extra stress and nerves.

Peter, twice worked in corporations

5. A lot of wasted effort

A corporation can afford to have hundreds of people engaged in work for work's sake. So sometimes you hardly will understand why and what you are doing. And even if you approach the next project with all my heart, somewhere above may change his mind embody it - just because.

One of the saddest choices wasted time - when you make a report or presentationAnd working up the back to you with a note that it is no good. However, from your work there remained 10 percent, because at every stage of each leader considered possible to make changes by himself, with sometimes they contradict each other. And you have to alter the result of the collective work.

6. Time wasted

You will have a lot of appointments, meetings and other discussions. On some of them you will not understand what's going on, on the other - why you have once again put together to explain the obvious. As often happens when the speaker is focused on a certain averaged employee - that is, in the end no one.

In some corporations, the problem with meetings is very urgent: you are going to discuss something, but after two days discussing the same thing, as if he had no intention at all. And yet, and the responsibility is blurred - so you can spend the entire workweek meeting.

Peter, twice worked in corporations

7. formal requirements

A small team to manage easily. Everyone understands that it is responsible for how it affects the overall result. A small company can not afford to duplicate the duties of employees. It is for it too expensive. As a result, track the performance of employees is easy.

In a large corporation to make it more difficult. Especially in people, and sessions can be too different to measure their efficiency, Involvement and so on. But it is easy to establish formal control: fined for being late, count the number of absences in the toilet. On efficiency, of course, it affects about nothing. The situation is close to the anecdotal, "you have cheap or go?".

And if we still add the KPI, then all your work will revolve around one thing - achieving the targets. How this will affect the performance - is not so important.

8. Substitution of personal collective

The notorious corporate spirit still continues to spread in large companies. It is logical, because love small firm easier. Are you familiar with all colleagues, you know, what does each of them and what your overall goals. You do not necessarily agree on every mikrodeystvie, you live their personal successes and failures and, of course, proud of the fact that you can be a part of something great.

corporate names usually are loud, on the work they pleasantly talk to others. But in fact, often have to pretend to love than it really feel. Difficult to assess your contribution to the common cause, because you are just a cog. Yes, without you, the system will not work, but you just replace.

To this realization is not pressed, the team pumped corporate spirit. You orient the overall great success, and private is blurred. And it can be a cause for frustration.

For slogans like "We - one family" may be hiding and another unpleasant consequence. If a company - your family, then why do you need another one? So spend a little more time in the office and on the weekend do not forget to come.

In the company where I worked, the walls are painted office motivational phrases, was area with a library and the best motivational books on corporate employees were brought from all over the country. Of course, inside were "sectarians" who lived true corporate spirit, but most think of it simply as a fad.

Peter, twice worked in corporations

9. Too much communication

If you simply do a good job, you will not notice too many people. To stand, will have to participate in conversations, be nice and convenient for the authorities, to laugh at other people's unfunny jokes, go to corporate events. Wherever you turn around, anywhere communication for the sake of dialogue, and not the most sincere.

Sometimes you have to make dozens of calls just to find someone who is responsible for the desired task. And this is clearly not the most productive session.

10. monotonous work

In a small company you are and Sweden, and the reaper, and the dude igrets, and it's be honest, the procedure angry. But at the same time it presents a great opportunity to try new things.

The major tasks of the company, as a rule, are distributed so that everyone was doing something specific - and only them. As a result, you scorch, You do not have the space to display their talent and come out with initiatives. The last so long will wade through the bureaucracy grinder, you just get tired of waiting, than it will end.

Have you worked in a large company? Share your experiences in the comments.