Ventajas
- It's a big company. Relatively more stable compared to smaller companies.
- Good vacation and work hours protected by German labor law.
- There are some good engineers and technicians with many years of experiences.
Desventajas
- Short sighted leaders at the very top. Company lacks long-term planning and changes directions a lot. On one hand, the company is very conservative about investing in new areas. On the other hand, it runs multiple similar projects independently at the same time and ended up wasting the resources.
- Doesn't value talents. Doesn't know how to identify talents. Doesn't know how to retain and grow talents. There is no career path for employees. Speaking Italian and knowing how to please upper management will probably help your career more than your technical capabilities. People ended up quitting or losing motivation to excel at work.
- Very slow in adopting new technologies. Basically zero innovation. It all starts with people at the top probably don't really understand or care about what's happening elsewhere in the world. There is no research department. No one does or is capable of doing serious and complex analytical work. People rarely go beyond their daily work to bring in new ideas and try out new things. The company is passively pushed to adopt new technologies by regulation. But how it "adopts" new tech is to just pay/waste tons of money to partner with other companies that own high techs, without being able to understand and digest these technologies on its own.