- super bureaucratical; (read - 50% of work time will be jumping bureaucratic hurdles, sending emails to clear up problems that should not even exist)
- ZERO support from HR in most things you will need
- career development non existent -> mainly depends on your own contacts and luck as to when certain positions are open -> also means that there is no straight career path (finance, marketing, supply chain management might all be part of the deal)
- very narrow job description
- work is usually very repetitive
- office (depending on which building you are in) is not nice (plenty of problems with air condition, freezing cold meeting rooms, internet etc.)
- no real goals from management (different event, same speech everytime "we are the best but we have to be better, provide more service, do the best for our customers) -> in the end it is about "using our market position to make customers pay premium (read unjustifyable) prices", save costs (read freeze travel and cut jobs and screw over employees in new positions)
- most jobs communicate a lot of firm specific skills, nothing you could transfer to other companies (on average there is one interesting job out of every 20 or so)