Credit Suisse Employee Reviews for Consultant

Fun to work with other Teams. Time flexibility is good. team work is fantastic. People are helpful in all technical support, reviews. Managers are supportive for any emergency situations.

Pros

flexibility in work hours, work life balance is good

Cons

salary for contractors is less

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A sure-shot career killer if you aren't ready to be a 24x7 slave

Ex-Consultant (Former Employee) - Singapore - April 20, 2014

Worst work culture I've seen in my decade long career. Not sure about other locations but in Singapore it was pathetic. Lots and lots of work, extra hours, weekend-work, holiday-work, no holidays. No family/social life. Leaving office 'on time' is called 'leaving early'. You absolutely have to spend 13-14 hours on an average on a daily basis. If you ever leave office once in a blue moon at the official shift-end time, you attract weird glances and unfavorable comments often. And all this for no returns or rewards. People who joined earlier and have reached high positions now simply don't want others to grow so that their positions remain secured. They are totally against allowing people to grow. Due to this, People working their guts out for years remain stranded at the same position with no increase in salary year after year. I wasted invaluable 4 years of my career here, in CS Singapore. To survive here, you must have a godfather or a godmother who will pull you along every time he/she moves up. Otherwise, life here is like serving a sentence. One good thing that's come out in my favour after I've worked with them is, if I've survived in PTG at CS Singapore, I can survive anywhere. I've worked with a couple of other large firms in similar projects after my tenure at CS and I absolutely found things like cakewalk. Had no insecurities or issues at all.

Pros

Military like work culture, teaching survival techniques.

Cons

Buttering one's godfather/godmother works, Pathetic work-life balance, slavery-like employment, carefully hand-picked anti-employee people run the show as managers (not all of them)...

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