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Costa Rica politics - toxic work environment - IT Team Member Dole Food Company Employee Review

1.0
Dec 14, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Salary raise every year. Good insurance

Cons

Typical scenario of tail wagging the dog, the smaller Costa Rica IT offshore services wags the US arm. In 2018 after an Irish company acquired Dole, the Costa Rica arm took over all IT- mafia style, by laying off Americans and outsourcing all IT to Costa RIca, where the management and resources were mostly incompetent with a few exceptions. Folks with Costa Rica connections in the US stayed back as they had sucked up to the new Global CIO. It was a simple power play. This place has gone downhill ever since due to business conditions.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 20, 2026
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Pros

- Standard 6% dollar for dollar 401k match - PTO okay - Management overworked but tolerable - This position should be a good stepping stone into a better job

Cons

- Work day is 8-5 and you only get paid for those hours but it’s expected that you stay later than that nearly every day to help others finish - Promised certain holidays off before accepting the job offer. Later found out that actually wasn’t true. - Weekend work required (you don’t get paid for the overtime, or at all for it) - Very disorganized. Almost everything is still done by hand/on paper. Systems are VERY dated. - Discriminatory work setting. Coworkers openly and loudly have racist and hateful conversations. Very inappropriate crude/sexual conversations happen frequently. - Expected to learn every other role in addition to your actual job title so you can take over someone else’s job if they’re out (you don’t get paid additional for the increasing expectations) - Health insurance is HORRENDOUS - Pay is VERY low for the variety of roles you’re expected to do, and much lower than the industry standard for this type of role - Office politics very bad. Coworker can’t figure out how to do their job after being there for 3 years. This sets everyone else behind, but instead of firing them, everyone else has to take on that person’s workload. Often times rude as well. - Wasn’t told we were paid in arrears until after I started working there and had signed an apartment lease. Had to wait 3 weeks before getting a single paycheck.

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