Dog and pony show - Mediocre - - Recensione dipendente - Research Scientist presso Solvay

Solvay is a large organization and as expected, it is like any corporate environment. Meaning, like a horse race, it is not surprising to expect that the management will force you to compete with your coworkers to keep you as productive as possible. As long as you play the game, you are a good fit. If you think you are an individual thinker, you may not fit well with the organizational culture as they tend to hire strong team players - who follow the group and obey. Speaking up is not a safe game to play. Management seriously lacks track record of success and it is all old boy's club. If you are not hired by one of senior managers your chance to advance in your career is not even poor, it is basically "0", null, zip, zilch, nada. Do not let average tenure of ~7 years mislead you, this is basically average time to reach your full potential in the company and the time to hit ceiling. If you are a career oriented individual and really good at what you do and did not become a leader in your organization or assume a management role, you should not spend more than 3 years in the company. Most people who decide to stay more than 3-5 years either doesn't have an other option but stay (H1B's, visa holders) or want to play safe and prefers to keep their paycheck over their mental health. With the help of Covid-19 and recession, they have cut some meaningless positions including removing some mid-management. There are still more pointless positions left in the organization and they appear to be willing to eliminate this jobs over time which will optimize the business and hopefully increase productivity. Most of the projects/employees have no meaningful impact on the industry so your job is to justify your existence constantly in the organization and make other people believe that you are doing something important even thought you do not believe that yourself. Maybe you want to work 8-5 job, play safe, drink your free coffee, get a free lunch time to time, get your middling performance scores and complain about how unfair the management is with your coworkers, collect average paycheck. If that is the case, Solvay is the place for you. If you want to advance well, do more than just appear to work and solve complex problems, really impact the industry, bring something new into the world, than go to anywhere else. Solvay will suffocate you. Overall, at this time around, it is the blind leading the blind kind of situation, lack of strategy.