Canadian's shame to allow them to have a business in our soil - Anonymous employee Saipem Employee Review

1.0
Nov 6, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Italians cannot speak English Do not pay contractors on time Cannot order material in average 3 month Italian way to run business Never listen to employees Extreme Micro Management kills everybody who wants work hard Too many foreign workers Basically very few Canadian Treat employees like a disposible garbage Finish lunch within 30 min or punished A lot of mouses and you can see mouse poops on your keyboard You don't know who will be fired next day

Cons

You can wear Jeans you will hear curse whole day in Italian and learn very Good change to meditate under worst management to make yourself stronger fot the next job

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3.0
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Pros

Great responsibility for offshore operations and quay-side mobilizations. Less technical role (no direct engineering performed), but more so, practical experience-driven when executing onsite.

Cons

Lots of reading and writing (Purchase Requests>Purchase Orders>Final contracts). Bureaucratic procurement (SAP and Word/Excel heavy) and poor interdepartmental follow-up: you have to do the follow-up when the assigned project inspector and expeditor (POSE) don't follow up on your PO. High workload.

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