BT Reviews

Former Employee – worked at BT full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – 1)Great opportunity to work with cutting age technology
2)Opportunity to work on various dimensions of business problems.
3)Get experience in working on some of the very high quality enterprise system with very complex architecture.

Cons – 1)Huge work pressure.
2)Plans are often co-ordinated properly.
3)Business managements are sometimes very tough to handle.

Advice to Senior Management – Decrease the number of layers from the top business user to the developer and hire more engineer. SOme times it looks like one engineer have to report 3 or 4 manager.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BT

Pros – good training and management and team

Cons – very strict on breaks and start times etc

Former Employee – worked at BT

Pros – Professional Communities , Contractors get access to this knowledge Pool

Cons – Unexpected shutdowns for holidays with little notice

Former Employee – worked at BT full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good working environment and internal processes. Relative freedom to follow ideas and initiatives.

Cons – Very hierarchical. Cost cutting in recent years has created tensions.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at BT full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – A great company to work.

Cons – Unfortunately, the company is located in the UK, thus, there is not much room for growth in the US.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the feed back of your employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at BT full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Job security, benefits, strong ethical principles, good reliable products.

Cons – Complex internal trading model and highly manual processes that make it hard to do things quickly.

Advice to Senior Management – Proper investment in replacing internal systems and repairing cross-divisional processes so improve full E2E delivery.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BT full-time for more than a year

Pros – The people are BT's biggest asset.

Cons – Extremely bureaucratic. Way too much red tape.
Dogmatic in employee appraisals... not so much meritocratic but "does it fit the bell curve"

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BT full-time for more than a year

Pros – Professional culture and stable well-defined jobscopes.
Structured and process driven.
Good office environment / location, and adequate best-practice benefits.

Cons – Slow, complex, bureucratic supporting processes that impede business growth and personal development.

Advice to Senior Management – Simplify the way we work, or lose good people whom care most for the business.
Leave the decisions to the business and hold them responsible, rather than micromanage to a state of unacceptable delay.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at BT full-time for less than a year

Pros – Big organisation, lots going on

Cons – Long process systems, complex hirarchy

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at BT full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – New offices.
Nothing else really

Cons – New offices in Sandwell have hade many cars stolen from the local car parks, people being mugged for their laptops... Not a nice area at all
Senior management appear intent on outsourcing all roles to India, improving margins and retaining their bonuses with no concern for staff morale or customer satisfaction.
Zero comms from line management.
Losing customers rapidly.
No written job description means zero promotional prospects.

Advice to Senior Management – Outsourcing everything to India is not the answer to every problem, communicate with the staff, hold team meetings and actually ask what's wrong.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company