Continental reviews

no flexible working hours or working from home

- Very political working environment. More than half of the time you are dealing with politics just to protect yourself, leading to reduced productivity. - A lot of policies are not implemented properly by the HR, leaving with lots of gray areas. - Pathetic increment, often not enough to cover the current inflation rate. - Inflated monthly salary figure due to annualized AWS, so no more 13th month lump sum. Your monthly salary may impair your chances of getting pay increment if you want to look for better career opportunities outside of Continental. - Shrinking bonuses, due to the nonsensical introduction of the Variable Compensation Scheme recently, that only benefits the upper management. Count yourself very luckily if you are able get 1full month bonus. - "Mission impossible" workload amount. A lot of managers are oblivious to the workload situation of the engineers, since they are not the one who are doing the actual work. - Unrealistic KPIs. - Performance appraisals are often done in emotional manner, not in objective manner. If your boss doesn't like you, you are pretty much screwed. - Promotions highly depends on relationship with your bosses. - Not the place for people who is eager to climb up the corporate ladder. - Highly questionable leadership from the management in Singapore. - Majority of the managers are highly resistant to change, not receptive of new ideas. - A lot of incompetent managers who likes to micromanage their engineers. - Too many "yes sir" or "yes madam" people in the management, who anyhow accept change requests or additional workloads from customers, Germany side, etc. - Recording hours is a total waste of time. Does not reflect the actual man hours logged in actual projects that are already done for the month. All the figures are have to be fabricated just to please the management.