Vantaggi
Excellent expat package (at the time of employment); nearly compensated for all frustration.
Svantaggi
After working for Irish owned/Ireland based companies for a decade, joining Amdocs (through acquisition) was like being drafter to the Army. The company structure has several, rigid layers; the upper management is inaccessible. It was very difficult to get things done, no informal routes, results can only be achieved by escalation upwards. There were many unkept promises, and even the ones kept were greatly delayed (I have been awarded and the award (a new laptop...) arrived almost a year after it was promised). The corporate policy seemed to be: deliver results that just meet agreed quality/functionality and fix issues later; do it as cheap as possible. Amdocs said before acquisition that they need our experience, the skilled people; but of course they only needed the existing customer base. They did not make anyone redundant, but (actively) let the situation deteriorate to the level where people rather voluntarily resigned.