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Jun 2, 2021
Anonymous employee
Former employee, more than 1 year
Johannesburg
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Business Outlook
Pros
Getting to work in an environment that provides exposure to large international development agencies
Cons
AMSCO for many years had one enormous advantage over its competitors: a special dispensation that allowed it to place expats in African SMEs under a tax exemption. People used AMSCO not because it was a good HR agency, but because the people it placed did not have to pay any income tax. As a result, the company never had to invest in its own systems, and a culture of mediocrity and incompetence became the order of the day.