Pros
The products we produce are excellent, probably the best in the industry, and our graphics are unparalleled. The emphasis on technology and development is inspiring, but often rushed. Not all, but many of the people who work there are amazing, skilled professionals. Employees go out of their way to help one another; they do their best to band together to overcome obstacles. The turnover is depressing, the best people usually don’t stay long. Career advancement is possible, but seems limited to only the few, favorited employees. Sometimes the company hosts events at the workplace, like a catered lunch onsite, it’s a nice gesture but doesn’t happen often.
Cons
Some of these reviews are pure fiction. If the review is overwhelmingly positive and raving that there are no cons to working at Seda, it’s probably fake. I find it sad management has taken to lying rather than addressing the issues that prompted so many negative reviews. If you're considering working here, seek out a current employee for their candid opinion, the internet is your oyster. The company puts production numbers and sales before employee health, wellbeing and safety. The company culture is toxic, and the management style is barbaric and ineffective. Very high turnover rates, weak or non-existent policies and training. Little accountability and information silo mentality make progress extremely difficult. Covid has been handled poorly, the response to protect workers and their families against the virus was delayed and minimal. It is rumored positive covid cases and workplace exposures have been covered up. Workplace discrimination is rampant, Italian workers are treated like gold, certain employees can work from home but others, who’s job responsibilities allow it, cannot. Favoritism is blatant, everyone knows who is immune to discipline because of it. Communication is atrocious. The company seems to avoid sending official notifications, instead they prefer to notify individuals via personal updates. This causes rumors to spread uncontrollably, often employees have different interpretations of what they were told, leading to confusion, upset and more rumors. It’s a vicious cycle that could easily be avoided. Performance reviews and raises are a joke. The company will use any excuse to not grant raises to deserving employees. Performance reviews follow no true metric, how can anyone meet or exceed expectations when they were never given goals or expectations in the first place? SAP (the software used for most processes) is torture. The implementation went poorly and the company has struggled since. Training is inadequate and improvements are slow coming, if not completely absent. The implementation was half realized, but upper management in Italy refuses to admit it, as it would be viewed as a failure by ownership.