BT Group reviews

The culture has changed significantly over past 10 years, with the last 5 being significant with a growth in 'toxic management' activity and high incidents of covert bullying and harassment especially at the middle management layers as the company reduces it's costs. No concept of 'team working' despite management rhetoric, it is each person for themselves which is reinforced by misused performance management and personal bonus activity. My experience is of a command and control culture which is a consequence of poor skilled managers. Performance management is an industry in BT with quarterly reviews, forced distribution curves and a heavy focus on the bottom 10% where there is a drive to force people out of the company by whatever means available. If your face does not fit then you will be managed out by any means that can be applied. Settlement Agreements are used to cover up poor people management practices and people are classed as 'labour cost' which is traded and used to support the large number of thiefdoms in the company.

Death by committee on every decision, virtually impossible to get anyone to take a brave decision and execute a strategy. When someone finally does take the plunge and it goes wrong no one is accountable truly so no one can actually fix things, the inter-dependencies across lines of business are so complicated and messy.