Pros
Packages are good and if your image fits then quick promotions are realistic. Good exposure to senior management
Cons
You are pushed to make short term cost reductions that in many instances negatively impact the company. Management are overly aggressive and there is a massive survival of the fittest culture. Everything is about perception and how good you are perceived to be. Hence quick numbers and large unsubstantiated benefits are promoted against slower quantified sustainable change to allow the overall image of the team and management to be maintained. This feeds through to performance management where there are real favourites and here is no secret about these. The churn in the team is huge and there is limited effort to retain staff. Which means there is always a number of new staff who require training. However given the completely unrealistic time pressures of projects there is limited to no training given. Everybody wants everything yesterday and the heads of who report into the CFOs are ambitious and don't push back on time frames meaning this gets pushed down to he consultants. This results in 60-70 hour weeks as standard just to keep your head above water. In turn this means you are pushed to do less enabled recommendations which I personally do not feel comfortable with. The tools methods of making the recommendations have not changed. We use tools to take non-effective activities out of teams. BT has a cost reduction mentality which means his has already been done so effectively the recommendations are just making it harder for teams to achieve output each year by having less resources. There is limited employee welfare, promotions are shrouded in mystery, it's ok is actually a translation for it's really good. The culture directed from the top is not to thank people rather as one head of explained. If I am not complaining and giving feedback that means they are doing ok. I am not a babysitter if I am saying nothing hen that means I am happy. It is not clear why people move externally and not into the business. It is very much the persecution that the mid doesn't want to dilute the reputation of the team so would rather let people move external than retain talent within bt.
