an employee of globantthe Argentinian company that produces software engineering, created a video on Tik Tok showing his day to day working for the corporation, which went viral. According to the video, the employees have a gym in the facilities where they can exercise in the morning; masseurs; café; Yoga classes; and they usually do after office in which they drink beer and play ping pongAmong many other things.
The video generated the envy of many network users, who were dazzled by the benefits and comfort of working in the corporation. But it also sparked outrage, particularly from some people who had also worked at globant but they had the opposite impression.
“As that Globant promotional video became fashionable as a labor panacea, I am going to tell you about my personal experience in that horrible place,” began a tweeter. Immediately afterwards, in a long thread, she recounted that she started working at the company in 2009, and that three months later they made her the boss, without salary increase, with 25 dependentsshould always speak in English.
“They sent me to receive the client (a Yankee) on a Sunday night. I had to receive him, show him his hotel, take him to dinner. They didn’t pay me any of that (they only gave me the money from the Yankee’s food). Many times they made me work weekends and did not pay me overtime. With a small group we tried to join the computer science union. They persecuted us, harassed us, sanctioned us. They put together blacklists with our names and put them on the blackboards of the bosses’ offices (where I went because I was a team leader),” said the former globantoutraged.
He also added that at one point he presented certificates proving that his mother was dying of cancer, but that they did not let her go out to take care of her, nor miss her without deducting her hours. She then asked for a schedule change to take care of her mother, but they did not give it to her even though she had no assigned tasks, according to the tweeter in the thread. “Of course, the break room had ping pong tables, coffee and tea and they gave us fruits and bills on Friday. Let’s not talk about decent wages and decent working conditions. massages? Yes, there was a masseuse, but the session was deducted from your salary (it was not free) ”, the former employee continued to discharge her.
even counted a particular anecdote about a Playstation: “I had forgotten about the time they gave us a goal with the incentive to win a PSP if we did it. We were teams of 4 people, my team won. The prize: A PSP for the four of us! We raffled it off and I won it. The other 3 got angry with me. I sold it, because I was hungry, ”she recounted.
But she was not the only tweeter to tell her bad experiences within the company. Another user added his own: “Guys in globant people work even on weekends and sometimes they don’t even get paid. Do not buy the verse of who knows what influencer of yoga, massages and little games. I clarify the same, great place to work especially if you are starting. He has excellent projects and clients. Just don’t idealize it and even less because of the loose testimony of an NN, talk to people who know,” added the tweeter.
Another tweeter also reported that he remembered a colleague of his “throwing down the ceiling trying to catch a rat on the ceiling”, and his Test Lead “trying to contain the poop that overflowed from the toilet with his feet so that it does not come out under the door in the office”. “Much less glamor…”, ironized the user.
globant It’s a company “Unicorn”, that is to say, that it was created less than ten years ago and that, without listing on the stock market, achieves a value of 1,000 million dollars or more worldwide. It was founded 20 years ago by Argentines Martin Migoya, Guibert Englebienne, Martin Umaran and Nestor Nocetti. Last December, during the Qatar World Cupthe company logo managed to have his company logo appear on the LED screens that surrounded the field, watched by spectators around the world.
“Our brand was born in Latin America but has global ambitions. It was an opportunity to show ourselves to 3 billion people, telling them that technology enters our lives and amplifies our potential. What better time to generate an emotional connection between a brand and a consumer than a World Cup,” Guibert Englebienne told Forbes recently.
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