The bad and the ugly
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Salary
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Lack of transparency, lack of respect, lack of honesty, zero flexibility, very little human decency, no real projects and no real research. For details, read the comments above.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Honestly, it can not be helped. Systematic change is required, and that is tied to the HQ.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Work atmosphere is terrible. Employees are instigated to compete with each other, there is virtually no collaboration even between the people in the same team and "idea theft" is a very common thing.
Image
It is very rare that the media are right about something (as it is usually propaganda in these cases), but this time it is mostly true. And the image is fully deserved.
Work-Life-Balance
There is none. There is zero flexibility. Chinese employees even sleep in offices overnight even if it is not allowed by law. You are not an employee, but an asset of the company.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
If you have all the traits mentioned in the comments above, you have a future in this company. Aside from this, you may expect that you are an "expendable asset". You are new and shiny and they value you for the first 2-3 years, until you transfer all your knowledge to them. After that you will see no real career improvement and they will bring new people in. You are not here to learn, but only to teach. Also, for some branches of industry, it can be harmful for your career, since some colleagues were not able to find new employment because companies were rejecting them based on their current employer, fearing industrial espionage.
Gehalt/Benefits
Only thing that Huawei does good is salary, stocks, and bonuses. If you like money, have no family, have very little human decency, no morals and ethics, and like to be a "right hand" of your boss, this is a company for you.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
There is no social awareness. IQ and EQ (especially EQ) are very low, which is surprising for an office full of PhDs.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
There is no team spirit. Teams exist to serve the team lead. Its a very hierarchical culture. You can expect someone else's name on your work.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
There are none, almost. Company openly breaks equal opportunities laws and employs only younger people. A lot of them are Chinese students who are mainly employed to be assistants (even though they are interns and the main goal is learning). Company also breaks all kinds of laws by discriminating candidates based on country they come from (company has an internal list of "forbidden nationalities"), based on their university (company has an internal list of universities from which interns are acceptable), and more often then not, Chinese bosses treat external (leased labor) employees, especially women, with a high level of disrespect.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Overall terrible. These positions are mainly occupied by people with low expertise and high ego with a complete lack of basic human decency. You would be very very very lucky to land a good team lead, and those do not last long here. They act like kings on the mountain, giving their tasks to you and taking all the credit in the end. They might even yell at you, or work without your back to remove you from the company if you are not willing to do their bidding. On multiple occasions supervisors have demonstrated rude, unprofessional behavior without any consequence since the company values only your level, thus will not do anything to protect employees or punish a bad manager.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Aside from a table, monitor, laptop and a chair, there is not much. We have a game room that is for show to visitors (to make outside people believe it is normal company).
Kommunikation
Proper communication is non-existent. There is a total lack of transparency and trust throughout the company.. Everything of importance is done in Chinese, and then expected from us to somehow understand. Projects/meetings are kept as a secret and division between national and cultural groups is obvious. Communication down the hierarchy chain depends on how decent is your supervisor. On multiple occasions (mainly Chinese bosses) would yell at their subordinates and this behavior is repeating throughout the company and different departments. They treat you like an animal, or like a property, not like a human being.
Gleichberechtigung
There are no real metrics, KPIs are virtually made up and make no sense, and most of them are not visible to employees, just to superiors. Therefore, there is no objectivity when dealing with employees, but more on the side of who the boss likes the most.
Interessante Aufgaben
Sometimes. If you are tolerant and hard-skinned enough, you can create your own bubble in which you can actually do something interesting. But it comes down to your personal motivation. All R&D done here, in Europe, is just for show generally, and labs look like museums (not because things are old, but because they are never used). There is no real research, not to mention development. The research centers serve to report other peoples/companies technologies and novelties to the HQ. Culture is defined by "no risk all the rewards" mentality. Corporate and industrial theft is a very common thing.