There are two types of company I refuse to work for:
1. Companies under French management
2. Companies with a dress code.
1. Companies under French management
2. Companies with a dress code.
I'm curious about this one, how come?
It mostly boils down to maddening bureaucracy.
Pointless meetings (when everything is decided in the hallways before the meeting starts, why have a meeting?).
An utterly bizarre obsession with certification over competence. You have a degree from this uni? You're hired! Even if you're as useless as they come. You're very skilled but don't have a degree from their favourite uni? Need not apply.
Simulating work is more important than working. You must be present from 9 to 5 at all cost.
Want something trivial done? Be prepared to submit it in writing (hard copy!) to management. You can expect a reply in about a month.
They would probably never work in their home country again. There are probably exceptions, but they both worked for big banks in Paris (not the same).
I interned at the French consulate one summer in college...
The bureocracy was madness, I'll tell you that. I think I got one single project completed in three months because of all the hoops and faxes and signatures and approvals required