Brooks Macdonald Reviews

Pros

Great people overall, makes work life bearable

Cons

Shady senior management, black history month constantly overlooked and forgotten about while Pride month and Woman’s day is promoted months before

Pros

Flexible working and ability to work from home.

Cons

Poor remuneration and low morale caused by senior management

Pros

Lovely colleagues, nice benefits, free fruit

Cons

Culture ruined by new management. Too strict on time off.

Pros

There are none to be fair

Cons

This was the most stressful, unpleasant and unprofessional firm that Ive ever worked for in my 20 years in the city. The management decisions that were made were baffling at times as some teams in the back office were left massively understaffed whilst other areas had ten times the head count with a fraction of the work loads. Staff members were made ill as a result of stress caused by high workloads and there was zero support from management. The IT systems were terrible and at least one system would go down or play up every single day. We were effectively told to lie to clients when things were busy and one manager even boasted about comitting insurance fraud which really shocked me. There was a huge lack of professionalism in the way the back office was run and if your face didnt fit then your time was numbered, despite your work ethic or abilities at doing your job. In fact people that did very little seemed to be praised and rewarded more than others which I found bizarre. There was no incentive to work harder or help others and we were treated like children and micro managed on a daily basis. In short I wouldnt wish this experience on my worst enemy!

Pros

The people are great and do their best in very difficult circumstances.

Cons

Senior management, support, systems, progression, structure, communication, remuneration, obsession with cost cutting, ignoring all problems, toxic environment honestly i could go on.