A NO GO workplace if you expect meritocracy and improve your career.The good thingsThe only good thing is work-mates. most are friendly atleast outside of work and no sense of seniority.
Even then it's kinda subjective to valued and may differ from department to department.
The challenges1. Bad reward-punishment system: Get nothing for additional work eg overtime etc. while punishment is there.
2. Bad working cultures: You don't get credit from your work rather from being nice to your upper rank.
When there's something wrong, they'll fix it without addressing the root's cause. Make peoples seems pointing at each others and shy of responsibilites, which may came down from politics and interests of parties involved. Unhealthy culture to have and result in the same issue to happen again.
3. Bad planning: Lot of additional works come from this. Always an issue which never looked at.
4. Bad work-load distribution: The more capable you are, the more load you get (again without any benefit from it). May goes unnotice if you don't pay attention though.
5. Bad career path: There's almost no career path here. You stay where you are. It's as if the upper management didn't know their own man. They rather hire someone from the outside if there's a vacant in the middle-rank management, preferably some acquintance of the upper-rank. So, yes, your work don't really get appreciated here bar the salary you agreed upon once you're in.
All in all, it all comes from bad 'people management'. The company may not see the human resource as an asset therefore not looking to much into developing things on said aspect. They just look at it as something disposable, if you can't do your job then they will kick you out and replaced you. Even if that's not entirely your fault, as the system might be the cause. That's why everything wrong keeps going on. As long as the plant work and running.