What is the hiring process like at GWI?

Friyays in the summer Flexible start and finish Fruit in the office There are some lovely people here but a lot of them have also been made redundant.

Morale - morale here is at rock bottom. There have been so many rounds of redundancies that people are constantly reeling from the last round of changes. For me, I have lost all the colleagues I used to work with, I barely know anyone in the office anymore. Management - I’ve worked out that I’ve had on average 2 managers a year since I started working here and none of them have actually been able to manage! I’ve had micromanagers, unprofessional managers and managers who do nothing. This brings me on to my next issue. Training and development - there are no training or development opportunities here. I have never been allowed to attend one course apart from LinkedIn learning, which is a complete waste of time. Managers are sent on internal courses which don’t seem to train them to do anything. Salaries - GWI is an appalling payer, salaries are very low here! Despite all the cost saving I am seeing the company doing, the employees are getting none of the benefits. Issues with the Athens office - there have been consistent complaints of how women are treated by the Athens office, I have seen this play out myself and it’s not ok, yet nothing has been addressed. Changes in strategy, direction, and senior leadership - I can’t keep up tbh. Senior leadership don’t seem to stay longer than 18 months… they also start, make recruitment decisions, people are hired. 6 months later the senior leader leaves and then people who were hired are made redundant!

In the past there were pros. But not anymore.

In the last 12 months there have been 3 bigs rounds of redundancies, which have been handled terribly. Each wave of redundancies has followed a huge hiring surge - literally hire then fire mentality. Senior Leaders are also put in position, they meddle with the way the company is run in a negative way and then they are also fired. The company is increasingly only focussed on AI and is making staff work around the clock to create a product which will clearly put more jobs at risk. The culture is dead. The money is terrible - way below market rate. They are clearly trying to get into a position to sell the business...but if they carry on at this rate there may not be a business to sell!!

- Lots of enthusiastic and talented people to collaborate with - Hybrid working - Free Drinks, Fruit and other snacks in the office - Plenty of social events

On paper GWI seems like a great place to work, and unfortunately I was suckered into this train of thought. The worst part of the company is the incompetence of the senior leadership team and the CEO. The company has been through several rounds of redundancies and they keep eliminating positions which cause massive brain drain. There is nobody to fulfil the duties of some quite specialist roles. They are hiring people in one round of recruitment and making those same people redundant 6 months later just before they pass probation. They get the work they need out of you then let you go to fulfil a financial quota. The CEO has gone on record stating that he didn't believe AI is a valid reason for people to lose jobs, then in a two faced fashion makes people redundant claiming the business rationale is freeing up funds for AI development. Leadership makes grand promises but never commits, and the regular workers pay the price for incompetency, while they survive with their golden parachutes. GWI could be a great place to work, but they don't have the spine to live up to the lofty ideals they spout.