Lloyds Banking Group reviews

Senior management poor,, constant restructuring, high speed outsourcing, no job security. Don’t choose Lloyds if you want any ounce of job security. They are constantly restructuring, colleagues are always wondering when it’s their turn because we know it’s coming! They can now manage you out the door in 8 weeks. You’re stuck in a role for 12 months and can’t apply for anything else internally, this isn’t good if you realise the jobs not for you or your manager is a bully. You are in the office all day sat next to other people all on teams calls, it’s so noisy you can’t hear yourself think and all in the name of collaboration! People are just miserable the morale is low, leaders just don’t care. Outsourcing at high speed to India. If you are placed ‘at risk’ you don’t get any extra credit to secure a new role, Sharon has made it clear she prefers new blood in the group not old wood maybe that’s why, they want external people. People are very, very disposable, you might come to the group and it’s all good but be warned you’ll be treated like the rest of us in no time.

The pace of change is excruciatingly slow. You can't even blame regulations for it, it's simply down to awful documentation, flakey technology, and years of knowledge simply living in contractors heads. Engaging different teams is just horrendous, with more interest in making sure internal timesheets are full for 35 hours a week, rather than actually delivering worth while solutions for the rest of the bank to use. It's not just technology, business processes too refuse to change. There's no appetite to make any changes to streamline processes or change how colleagues work, meaning we spend years implementing clunky solutions that are ineffective and simply replicate the mistakes of the past. There's a massive lack of trust in us employees too. All changes have to go through close to hundreds of different checks, forums, audits, governance gates, change reviews, workshops, even for relatively simple changes. Not to mention the "2 days a week", expecting employees to simply turn up to the office as early as they can in an attempt to get a desk that has functioning equipment, or a seat in an overfilled office. To add to that lack of trust, very few people I have met will make a decision, or take on any amount of responsibility for an issue. It's a very odd attitude to have in a world where mistakes happen, slopey shoulder syndrome all the way down.