Small and medium sized employers are very bad places to work. The Italian definition of small company is one with less than 15 employees, these companies avoid much regulations and practically employ at-will, when they don’t use temporary contracts. A company is considered large if it employs more than 50 people. An Italian medium sized company, would be considered small everywhere else.
In small and medium sized companies, salaries are extremely low, unpaid overtime is the norm and career progression is close to impossible. They are usually family-run, and the only way to progress is to marry the son/daughter of the owner. They can't hire competent people because they can’t afford to pay what abroad would be the salary of an entry level engineer and working conditions are so bad that everybody who can joins large or foreign companies or becomes a public servant, so they can’t work on anything serious, in lack of a better word, and often end up being a sort of expensive Amazon Turk for larger companies.
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Small and medium sized employers are very bad places to work. The Italian definition of small company is one with less than 15 employees, these companies avoid much regulations and practically employ at-will, when they don’t use temporary contracts. A company is considered large if it employs more than 50 people. An Italian medium sized company, would be considered small everywhere else.
In small and medium sized companies, salaries are extremely low, unpaid overtime is the norm and career progression is close to impossible. They are usually family-run, and the only way to progress is to marry the son/daughter of the owner. They can't hire competent people because they can’t afford to pay what abroad would be the salary of an entry level engineer and working conditions are so bad that everybody who can joins large or foreign companies or becomes a public servant, so they can’t work on anything serious, in lack of a better word, and often end up being a sort of expensive Amazon Turk for larger companies.