Toxic Work Environment, Zero Respect, and Favoritism - Software Engineer BNC Networks Employee Review

You do get exposure to a structured corporate environment and to the construction insudstry, which teaches you how to work under pressure. A few colleagues are genuinely nice and supportive, though the culture overall leans more toward people watching each other and reporting up than true teamwork. If nothing else, you’ll walk away with resilience and a better idea of what kind of workplace you don’t want in the future.

Working here feels less like being trusted as a professional and more like being back in school. Instead of focusing on the quality of work, management obsesses over whether you “look busy” enough. Targets change whenever they feel like it, without any consistency or, of course, a pay increase to match. Pay is low compared to the workload and expectations. Micromanagement is a daily routine, and the culture is extremely rigid and quiet, where people barely interact. The funniest (and most insulting) part is the idea that if you don’t hit their moving target, the solution is to come in on weekends, unpaid. They even expect you to exceed the official target on a regular basis, which makes it clear the issue isn’t performance but unrealistic demands. If an employee isn’t meeting expectations, the solution should be clearer communication, fair support, or structured feedback not taking away personal time. Punishing people with weekend work doesn’t fix the real problem, it just creates resentment. That says enough about how much they value “professionalism” over actual fairness. The truth is, if you’re looking for a place where results and respect matter more than appearances, this isn’t it.

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Oh boy! Where do I begin? 1. “Managers” need to learn how to actually manage team members instead of publicly humiliate, play favorites and gossip non-stop. 2. Constantly having to deal with both the managers’ emotions instead of actually working - drains the life out of you. Oh by the way, yes, you have to report to two managers! 3. Was asked personal questions like: “Why don’t you want to have kids?” “How much will you eat?” Very unprofessional. 4. The confidence that I had before joining the company having worked at really good organizations before, was shattered. They make you feel like you are good for nothing. 5. Managers have a few “favorites” who talk about those very managers behind their back. Those long hours of gossip in the meeting room, pretending like they’re working was ridiculous. 6. Expecting us to work outside office hours like it’s normal? And then telling me “oh i was testing your loyalty to the company??!” (I’m not sure if they had a life outside of BNC, but I surely did, so no thank you!) 7. There’s absolutely no space for talent or creativity. Just follow a script word-to-word. 8. All this while being paid a subpar salary (phew) 9. They just need a scapegoat to assign blame, for everything that goes wrong. And a lot of things go wrong. They said that themselves :) I strongly advise against joining this company if you care about your mental health. Honestly, there are way better companies out there. I’m sure you’re desperate to land a job in UAE, but please, this is NOT IT!