BT Group reviews

Where do I start, this really is a miserable employer, I'd think twice before joining. Out of touch exec who don't seem to care about their employees and adopt a 1990s dictatorial approach. The workforce and the exec are generally at war with one another, very much a 'let them eat cake' attitude from the exec, examples include: Poor pay rises for staff (strikes due to it) inspite of the top brass walking away with lottery winning salaries and 30% increase in what they took away this year (no offer to give any of it up). 'Dictating' that employees need to be in the office a set number of days a week vs trusting them to make the decision as to where works best to be most productive and failing to acknowledge that in the global/ digital world we are now in many colleagues collaborate from different countries/ cities and arent co-located. Facilitating the departure of many good people due to the implementation of new office hubs which you need to live within 90 mins of, and the closure of their previous places of work. These hubs now reflect an out of date building strategy now that covid has shown you can achieve the same or better results working remotely however the top brass don't want to admit this hence the days a week in office dictat, got to show its working. Heavy offshoring of jobs to reduce costs, yet claiming to be a 'British institution' Loads of beauracracy, takes an age to get things done, lots of layers, hierarchical and stuffy in nature. Hard to internally move jobs to develop and barriers to doing so eg if on older more lucrative contract you'll lose out

* Lied to on job description, was told there would be software engineering but barely got any of it. Instead got given a lot of meaningless admin work and treated like grunts by managers. Only 1 rotation (out of 3) was actually technical. * HR is patronising and doesn’t listen to any of us when we raise feedback about the grad scheme, they remove any autonomy from us then accuse us when something is wrong with the graduate scheme when enough of us speak up. * Complained about workplace bullying from a couple of graduates. line manager used my annual performance review to brush grievances under the rug and I suspect they lowered my performance score in retaliation too. Also gossiped about me behind my back to other colleagues too and denied me further work and training opportunities to push me out of the business * Some managers too scared of newest technologies, stifles innovation and creativity and provides no scope for graduates to contribute to individual teams and do meaningful work * Some Supervisors/Junior managers just cannot think for themselves and just hum the same tune as HR even if it’s not in the graduates own best interests * Most times treated like a number even though programme leads keep lying to us that we’re valuable * Outdated view of ‘you need to see different areas of the business’ to justify rotations rather than give graduates actual experience to further career development. As a result not enough experience built at end of grad scheme to find a role in BT afterwards, too far out of uni to find another grad scheme. Catch 22 scenario.