B2B doublespeak galore. Impressively clueless management, non-existent corporate culture
Pros
Salary paid in full and on time. Remote work. Management does try to retain employees if it sees potential. I can't complain about ill-treatment - they did their best, I was just miserable and the work was nonsense.
Cons
This will sound like sour grapes. So, before reading, please note: after leaving Luxoft, I became a department head with double the salary. I still edit and write in a crunch, I work nearly triple the hours I used to, and I couldn't be happier. Culture matters, management support matters, expectations towards copy matter. As for Luxoft... if you've ever worked at a place with: *good corporate culture *solid onboarding processes *reasonable internal clients who write halfway sensible briefs and expect clear, informative copy *supportive coworkers *Google Workspace/Slack *and valued knowledge centers, then you've been ruined and Luxoft ain't for you. To start: Most marketing production is in Poland and Moscow, but the Strategic Marketing leads are in Seattle and elsewhere in the US. And those marketing leads run circles around the Eastern Europeans. Their b.s. is strong, and the E. European managers support it. So, unless you like writing things like this: "maximise business potential and drive performance acceleration through a focus on business outcomes and enterprise growth" "customer-centric integrated solutions driving innovation and operational excellence" maybe don't be a writer for Luxoft. Other things worth mentioning: No onboarding or mentoring when you join up - you immediately get thrown into the fray of senseless projects with non-existent briefs and thin/irrelevant inputs. This would have been fine if the marketing leads had honestly said "we just need to b.s. up some collateral. Coupla platitudes about the state of the industry and how our solutions are relevant, and you're good to go." Instead, you're given four hours to write an article, get given a heap of serious analytical reports to base it on, and off you go... when what they actually wanted was 3 paragraphs of fluff. Talking about real use cases and using industry-relevant SME insights is frowned upon. Thought leadership = taking trend reports from Deloitte and Gartner and repurposing them for your own trend reports. A wealth of internal expertise gets ignored/sidelined because it's too specfic, too revealing of the inapplicability of hot tech that Marketing wants to push to the industry it wants to push it to, or just siloed in an engineering office. The amount of backbiting and sniping by other writers is intense, especially given the general lack of support (except for the Polish team - they're cool). Only Microsoft and Atlassian tools. Outlook, Word, Sharepoint, Teams. Not the worst, but really atrocious if you're used to Google/Slack/Notion, etc
