The culture becomes toxic - Anonymous employee EPAM Systems Employee Review

The company culture has been steadily degrading and is becoming toxic. Despite improving business results, leadership consistently refuses salary increases, hiding behind vague “unstable market conditions” - as if employees’ personal lives were somehow stable and immune to inflation. For years, people are fed with empty promises: “just wait a bit longer, things will improve.” They don’t. Workload keeps increasing, expectations rise, but compensation ьщыедн stays the same. Even though salaries are occasionally increased (roughly once every 2-3 years), the raises are negligible and do not even come close to covering inflation. In practice, this results in a real decrease in income over time. Employees are expected to deliver more, faster, and with fewer resources. New processes are constantly introduced for the sake of process itself, often disconnected from real project work and adding bureaucracy instead of value. There is a strong sense of chronic fatigue and burnout across teams. Wanting a fair salary increase is subtly framed as selfish or disloyal, creating a culture of guilt rather than trust. Senior leadership appears to treat employees as expendable resources to be squeezed until exhaustion and then replaced.