10 reasons not to work in large corporations

Miscellaneous / by admin / November 02, 2023

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If you are not ready for such conditions, it is better not to get involved.

UPD. Text updated August 6, 2019.

1. Low income

If the corporation wants to see you specifically, they will offer favorable conditions to lure you away from your current place of work. Those who submit their resumes themselves and apply for a line position will, as a rule, not be offered much.

You should already be grateful that you were called to a company with a name - this can be considered a verbatim quote from HR managers in some corporations. In addition, the level of income is often influenced by length of service in this company. To get a decent extra pay, you will have to work for a long time, and in the first years you will have to be content with little.

Finally, corporations usually have strict staffing schedules. So that you increased salaryIt's not enough to try and be the best. You need to move up your career ladder, but this can be a problem.

One day I was called to work at a large media holding. The expected salary was puzzling: it was half the average for the industry in Moscow. In response to my bewilderment, they told me that working in the holding itself was luck and an opportunity and I should be grateful to them.

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Maria

refused to work for a corporation

2. Predictable and slow career growth

A corporation is a colossus with a huge number of employees. The number of chiefs is amazing, and behind them there are also deputy deputy chiefs.

Accordingly, you can clearly see all the steps career ladder. But to go up, you have to wait until they are free. You can hope for a promotion for years, and there will be many applicants for the vacancy.

Even if you are a genius, your talent cannot be seen from the top of the mountain, so the climb will not be easy.

3. Bureaucracy

Working in a corporation, you will learn how to write a memo on memos and begin to masterfully fill out all official papers. This makes a certain sense. Due to the branched structure of large companies, it is almost impossible to reach neighboring departments in any other way, much less get what you want from them. Therefore, you have to write official letters and send them, mentioning your general boss in the copy, so that the addressee does not have the opportunity to slip away.

In addition, official correspondence helps relieve oneself of responsibility for missed deadlines and poorly completed parts of the task for which you were not responsible. If so, you have evidence. True, this does not always help.

For six out of eight hours I had to write service documents and have them signed by the responsible people - and electronic confirmation was not enough, I had to go around. And most importantly, there was absolutely no need for this. When I realized that I was, rather, a highly paid courier, I ran away.

Natalia

left the corporation two weeks later

4. Questionable distribution of responsibility

Your merits will concern someone only if you need to be fired urgently. Basically, everything will depend on the notorious team spirit. If a department fulfills a plan or does something great, then the entire department will be praised. Even if it's only your merit. At each subsequent stage, chiefs and departments of various kinds will join these achievements. So in the end everyone will look the same great, and this can be offensive.

But with responsibility for failures, things are a little different. If this is your mistake, then first you will receive censure as part of the team, and then individually - and not only from the authorities, but also from those who suffered because of you. If you are not guilty of anything, you will still be punished.

I spent the first month at the corporation trying to figure out how and what works, who does what. Why do you need to go to this person for this question, and not to this one? It's hell to actually get something out of another person, especially if you're new. At best, they will ignore you, at worst, they will go to the general with a bunch of questions. It's all stress and unnecessary nerves.

Peter

worked in corporations twice

5. A lot of wasted work

A corporation can afford to have hundreds of people doing work for the sake of work. Therefore, sometimes you will have difficulty understanding what you are doing and why. And even if you approach the next project with all your heart, somewhere at the top they may change their mind about implementing it - simply because.

One of the saddest ways to waste time is when you have completed a report or presentation, and the result of the work was returned to you with the note that it is no good. True, only 10 percent of your work remained there, because at each stage each manager considered it possible to make corrections on his own, and sometimes they contradicted each other. And you will have to redo the result of this collective creativity.

6. Wasted time

You will have many meetings, meetings and other discussions. At some of them you will not understand what is happening at all, at others you will not understand why you have once again been gathered to explain obvious things. This often happens when a speaker focuses on some average employee - that is, in the end, no one.

In some corporations, the problem with meetings is very pressing: you get together, discuss something, and two days later you discuss the same thing, as if you had never met at all. And responsibility is also blurred - this means you can spend the entire working week on meetings.

Peter

worked in corporations twice

7. Formal requirements

It is easy to manage a small team. Everyone understands what exactly they are responsible for and how this affects the overall result. A small company cannot afford to have employees' responsibilities duplicated. It's too expensive for her. As a result, tracking employee performance is easy.

This is more difficult to do in a large corporation. Moreover, people’s activities may be too different to measure. efficiency, involvement and so on. But it’s easy to establish formal control: fine people for being late, count the number of trips to the toilet. Of course, this has approximately no effect on efficiency. The situation is close to anecdotal: “Do you want checkers or go?”

And if KPIs are added to this, then all your work will revolve around one thing - achieving target indicators. How this will affect performance is not so important.

8. Replacing the personal with the collective

The notorious corporate spirit still continues to be instilled in large companies. It’s logical, because it’s easier to love a small company. You know all your colleagues, you understand what each of them does and what your common goals are. You don't have to agree on every micro-action, you live through your personal successes and failures and, of course, feel proud to be part of something cool.

The names of corporations usually sound loud, and it’s nice to tell others about working for them. But in reality, you often have to fake love than really feel it. It is difficult to evaluate your contribution to the common cause, because you are just a cog. Yes, the system cannot work without you, but replacing you is easy.

To ensure that this awareness does not weigh heavily, the team is pumped up with corporate spirit. You are oriented toward overall great success, while the personal is blurred. And this may be a reason for frustration.

Slogans like “We are one family” may also hide another unpleasant consequence. If the company is your family, then why do you need another one? So spend more time in the office and don’t forget to come on weekends.

In the company where I worked, the office walls were painted with motivating phrases, there was a corner with a library and the best motivating books, and employees from all over the country were brought to the corporate event. Of course, there were “sectarians” inside who really lived by the corporate spirit, but most perceived this simply as a quirk.

Peter

worked in corporations twice

9. Too much communication

If you just do your job well, no one will notice you: there are too many people. To stand out, you will have to participate in conversations, be nice and convenient for your bosses, laugh at other people's unfunny jokes, go to corporate events. Everywhere you turn, there is communication for the sake of communication, and not the most sincere one.

Sometimes you will have to make dozens of calls just to find the person who is responsible for the task you need. And this is clearly not the most productive activity.

10. Monotonous work

In a small company you are both a Swede, a reaper, and a pipe player, and this, let’s be honest, is quite infuriating. But at the same time, it opens up great opportunities to try new things.

In a large company, tasks are usually distributed so that everyone does something specific - and only that. In the end you you burn out, you don’t have the space to show your talents and come up with initiatives. The latter will spend so long making their way through the meat grinder of bureaucracy that you will simply get tired of waiting for how things will end.

Have you worked in big companies? Share your experience in the comments.