Leaving soon - SRE/DevOps Engineer Ennov Employee Review

Very laidback environment, good people, mostly easy going as long as there's an attempt at working. Great, great worklife balance, good PTO and no overtime is ever requested/expected.

The pay is kind of shoddy.

A single and unique advantage: the development of technical skills due to the highly advanced nature of the product."

I would like to share with you my experience at Ennov. This post aims to alert future candidates and employers about certain practices that, in my opinion, are completely incompatible with a healthy and respectful work environment. I joined Ennov with the motivation and enthusiasm typical of any new employee. Upon my arrival, the HR Manager presented me with the internal rules, including a 40-minute break in addition to the lunch break, and the possibility to work remotely depending on the situation. Unfortunately, the next day, a complete reversal took place. Management abruptly imposed a new rule limiting breaks to only 10 minutes for the entire day (8 hours)—a restriction that is difficult to accept, even in the most rigid environments. Working in technical support, it is natural for employees to need to keep their laptops within reach, even during internal movements. This too was prohibited, without any coherent justification. Adding to this, there is a glaring lack of modern equipment, as the company does not even have a Wi-Fi network, forcing every employee to stay connected via Ethernet, effectively turning laptops into desktop computers. Faced with these dysfunctions, my colleagues and I requested a meeting with HR to propose concrete solutions aimed at improving our working conditions, in the interest of everyone, including the company. During this meeting, the employees raised the same issues. I took the initiative to formalize this feedback in an email addressed to HR. We were promised a response within a week, or two at most. After several follow-ups and numerous unfulfilled promises, we were met with complete silence. This was, for me, the first time I had seen an HR department so incapable of taking responsibility and honoring commitments. In parallel, operational management was equally chaotic. The team manager had no clear method for distributing tickets, leading to a significant imbalance in workload and task allocation among team members. Faced with this situation, I proposed a structured assignment method, with clear rules tailored to the specifics of our work. My method was adopted in less than 24 hours, confirming the total lack of leadership and initiative from the manager, who was unable to provide solutions on his own. Every day in this company brought its share of negative surprises, mainly related to the disrespect of employees and the complete disregard for the human aspect. A striking example: when I was sick, with a medical certificate and information communicated to HR, I requested two days of remote work to rest while remaining available. The response was chilling: 'It is necessary to see each other regularly at the office.' No listening, no flexibility, even in a health-related situation. Finally and after just one week, I received a direct call from my manager informing me that the company was terminating my probation period, without any explanation. What I take away from this experience is a company deeply disconnected from modern human and organizational realities, accumulating management errors, archaic practices, and a total disregard for its employees. In my opinion, it will take them years of self-reflection to hope to achieve even a minimum level of managerial and organizational maturity. I hope this testimony will help others avoid a similar experience.