Pros
- Good coffee, interesting international colleagues, even some baroque bug writers.
Cons
- The most relevant and accurate review regarding Locteam was written on 20th July 2018 and it highlights the same critique that I have. Since I don’t want to duplicate that information I will mainly write about Locteam from a legal point of view. - Locteam has on several occasion operated illegally. My first encounter with this unculture were when the employees were told to not use the work chat to openly discuss company policies regarding a negotiation about the use of holidays. Hindering employees to discuss issues that affect them all and/or for them to organise a response to the management, should be considered as a violation of Spanish labour laws. - Locteam has been operating as a staff recruitment company (such as Manpower) for several years for the Apple office in Madrid, without reflecting this in the employees contracts. Due to this, several employees that have been fired have threatened to take them to court, and after this receives large pay-outs and good recommendation letters to keep silent. - The management has on several occasions proven that they are retroactive rather than proactive in health and legal work environment issues. First example of this is when the management were given several complaints about one employee due to this persons male chauvinistic alt-right comments. No action was taken. Action was only taken when the 95% of the women in the office stood up and demanded it. This resulted in the person being fired and a 8 page anti-bullying contract. However, the contract was so poorly written that it would be in conflict with our actual work instructions at times. - The old manager was later fired due to the above mentioned incident amongst other things. Four employees took over the management and there were hopes that the working environment would improve, but rather the opposite occurred. Whilst demanding efficiency and professionalism, they would fire people for personal reasons and treat people differently based on their personal liking and not based on work efforts. When some employees have made formal complaints about this type of preferential treatment, those complaint haven't been dealt with in neither a professional nor legal correct manner. The rule seem to be, if you complain, you will receive complaints of your work effort from the management - or get fired. - Further, testers have received electroshocks and rather than caring for their employees healths and well-being, Locteam has authored new long confidential agreements that will disabled any employee to seek legal advise regarding any work environment issues.