International SOS reviews

It’s a flat organization with no growth path or learning or knowledge growth. They believe in hiring experienced resources from the market, rather than training and uplifting in-house talents, and later block the market talent for a few years with no growth path. There is zero scope for implementation of innovative ideas, since your reporting managers have no clue on what goes on in the ground and what changes are required. There is ZERO employee engagement in the organization with the peoples team busy throughout the month reaching NO goals to aim at. Living in the olden era in terms of technology upgrade. Too much of bureaucracy for every small thing. Top heavy company with dirt cheap politics at the top than India as a country in itself. A company that's under losses year on year spends lavishly on their HOD's, spending ample of lacs per month on their basic pay, travel etc. but has no budget for employees (who do all the ground work). Boot lickers manage their way up easily, while the hard working people are mistreated. 70% of the HOD's lack basic communication skills, manners, team management skill. AUTOCRACY at its peak. No Leadership skills at any given level, all autocratic managers who cannot manage their basic tasks, no knowledge of how things work, some keep themselves busy with their headsets on watching some online serials, some to show off their high handedness, some only come to work to warm their chairs and fill their hefty pockets, while they sack people at the ground level with peanut salaries as money management measure. For any esteemed organization the first step to cut cost is looking at top layer (heavily paid resources) and devise a mechanism on how the costs can be managed well, but that’s not applicable in the case of International SOS, since they are Pennywise and Pound Foolish.

Working hard without any recognition of appreciation, no proper tools and systems If systems and tools are provided, it will be at the expense of bonuses and increments as the budget is tightly controlled Performance Appraisals are are joke Annual salary increases for most middle management and below are less than 2% but more than 10% for senior leadership Bonuses are another joke for most people except for leadership teams where they get more than 6 months NO integrity and respect for the employees