A good place to start and learn a lot, if you can live with the corporate culture
Pros
A good place to gain a lot of business experience, both transferable and non-transferable. International environment, lots of people from different parts of the world. Structured and organized environment, driven by rules, logic and numbers, no nonsense here. Flamboyant business, big numbers. Serious company who genuinely cares for the employees. Very good health and safety focus. Good benefits package. The management is open to hear suggestions from the employees, if they make sense. Overall good training is available, both in-house or provided by recognized external companies, including learning of foreign languages. There are career opportunities but on the long run, for those who are quite patient and can live with the cons over the time.
Cons
Too much bureaucracy and procedures, trivial things become relevant and steal time from the truly important ones; this is the result of the prevailing risk-aversion, all-safe culture at EM. Military-like authority and ranking systems, which force employees to continuously 'fight' between them, or they'll become stagnated. Some good performers according to KPI's are promoted to supervisors but lack the necessary people skills. The bad performers just stay at their current position for years, continuing with their evident low performance and being a bad influence.
