- Pay is more or less aligned with other companies in town. However Bratislava is getting expensive, so with an average starting salary of 830 euros net and a good room costing 350 euros, you'll be left with very little. If you're planning to live by yourself, just forget it.
-2000 EUR penalty in case you take housing allowance but leave the company before 18 months
-Depending on department and shifts, no overtime paid
- Benefits: some are not real benefits or are just tenured benefits. Let me provide a few examples.
*Kindergarten is not for free, nor cheap . You have it in the building. Indeed that is convenient, but if you pay a 'discounted rate' of 300+euros per month, this is not a benefit
*Gym is a tenured benefit. Indeed, the gym is on site, but it's free to use only if you've been in the company for at least 1 year. So, this is a tenured benefit. If you're just starting it's 13 or 25 EUR per month, depending if you take classes or not. Closed during week ends. Given price and opening time, you'd better join any other gym in town.
* Meal vouchers: you get 2 sets of vouchers. Each voucher is worth 2 euros. In total you have 80 euros vouchers. However you cannot spend them wherever you like. Half of it, 40 euros, can be spent only in the local canteen and nowhere else (yes you have left only 40 euros to go grocery shopping). The canteen is not at all cheap. An average meal is 4.50 euros, this means the voucher will cover less than half the cost of a daily meal. Also, when you leave the company, you have to give back unused vouchers. As they are gone before the end of the month, most likely you'll have to pay them back. As I left the company one week before the end of the month and had no vouchers left, 20 euros have been deducted from my salary. This is definitely unfair as I can spend 20 euros wherever I want while vouchers can be spent only on selected shops, or, even worst, just in the company canteen. Keeping vouchers value out of employees salary is not a good practice.
*Language classes. Depending when you start (e.g. after the second quarter) you may not get the chance to have a language class paid
-It can take ages to get software access and basic IT hardware. I had to wait 2 months to get a computer screen and a keyboard. Working only on laptop definitely slowed down my job and also goes against any good ergonomics practice. I also had to wait more than a month to get access to the software I was supposed to use.
