• The fact that Senior Management are leaving false reviews with things like “Super supportive Top Tier Management” is mind blowing. It’s good to know they think of themselves in a rather high regard.
• Every mention of “Senior Management” in this statement is also applicable to the Managing Director Toby MacLachlan.
• Made half of the UK staff redundant bar the people that were absolutely necessary and then opened an office in India to off shore Development and Test work to support one particular person who wishes to move back to India.
• The apprentice program they “run” is an absolute joke, again to promote cheap labour even though they have the apprentices taking on responsibilities of mid-level talent with no supervision from senior members of staff, leading to a poor quality of work.
• They hand out promotions on an interim basis so they don’t have to pay you for it, and then when you ask for a performance review it gets rescheduled countless times so they can come up with a plan of action. When it does actually happen you’re given a multitude of reasons as to why your mediocre so they have an excuse not to pay you market rate.
• Every Junior/Mid-Level member of staff are paid below market rate.
• When it comes to promotions and/or salary every encounter with you by Senior Management is like a business deal.
• Senior Management operate in a different world to everybody else in the business, they make decisions and change processes on their own without consulting anyone else and then expect everyone to just accept it.
• They ask knowledgeable people for their advice and then they go and do the exact opposite of what was discussed, then when it goes wrong they shuffle the blame to somebody else.
• Talking to any of the Senior Management is like banging your head against a solid brick wall until eventually you become a former shell of yourself, unless you say something they want to hear, then it’s okay.
• They support an open door policy, you can speak to Management at any time and then they’ll forget about it as soon as you leave the office. The Managing Director will even use things you’ve said against you in performance reviews claiming you’re not “on board” with their ideas and then question your role within the company.
• The Managing Director said I that if I interviewed for my own position that I currently held at the company, I might not get the job!
• The amount of lies and deceit that are often spewed on a daily basis by Senior Management make it hard to figure out what on earth the current business objectives are.
• From the catastrophic mistakes made by Senior Management over the last year they have lost more than 12 years’ worth of domain knowledge which otherwise could have been avoided by treating people with respect.
• The only social events that are held are ones created by members of staff, and for a company turning over millions I’d say a budget of £100 per person for your Christmas event is ridiculous (which is also left for employees to organise and book).
• Staff have to bring in their own PS4 because the company is yet to purchase a replacement for the office.
• They claim you have access to Perkbox after your probationary period but nobody has ever seen it. I call it “mystery Perkbox”.
