everis reviews

everis came to the USA from Spain to service exiting clients with HQ in Spain. everis hired an experienced American partner with good connections (partner is the highest level) along with one or two of his old employees, basically bringing over a team to help. Sounds great. everis then brought over another partner from Spain who had absolutely ZERO experience in the US, so the three Spanish partners, who knew nothing about the US, could outvote the American. Imagine if you went to Spain and started a business. You would probably want to hire some decent Spanish talent, right, and then give them some autonomy? everis couldn't do this. Understand this and you understnd everis: The Spanish partners hired an American partner with a proven track record in several sectors, and then proceeded to tell him how to do business in a country where he had done business successfully for 25 years. After about a year and a half, the American partner and his team left. One of the Spanish partners is a 50-something hippie type who is probably a blast to hang out with socially, rides a motocycle and loves to party. He also is utterly clueless about the US market; the guy couldn't sell fireworks on 4th of July. Another partner is a somehwat younger guy who wildly overestimates his own abillity. This guy hasn't been able to generate any American business (outside of a deal with a Latin American divison of the World Bank) because he is actually a mediocre talent who would never in a million years rise to the level of partner at a Tier 1 US consultancy. The third Spanish partner was let go and went back to Spain. everis is failing. If you're not growing, you're failing. All the nepotism / cronyism stuff is true; the Spanish contingent takes care of each other. Most of them speak English decently, but few of them speak it well enough to lead a presentation to an American client, especially when that client just had a presentation from a rainmaker at a top tier competitor. I would only take a job here if I were desperate.

(Unpayed) Overtime seems to be the plague of IT consultancy (at least in Spain), and in Everis it seems even more ingrained than elsewhere. As in other companies of the sector, it will depend on where you fall. Some projects will be ok, others will be a nightmare where you will simply burn out. You will have the same lack of respect of companies to the lives of their workers as elsewhere, and do overtime (illegally, again, as elsewhere) on weekdays or weekends, as needed. And this culture of doing overtime as an implicit failure of the workers to meet deadlines will guarantee that this will go on for many years to come. Professionally and technically, Everis has no big difference with the rest of companies. I really don't know how the system works and keeps on going, projects being carried on by junior roles more and more, and younger every time (or even with little computing knowledge). The Spanish ecosystem of moving from the discredited junior programmers to the valued analysts & managers, leaving behind a wierd emptiness of senior programmers, is still something that amazes me. It makes me feel very unsure for my future (since my value is as programmer), always waiting for the moment when companies will successfully outsource programming to Latin America, and leave us out of work or dropping our salaries dramatically. I certainly don't want to be here (or in Spain) by that time.