Would not recommend. - IT Analyst Highbourne Group Employee Review

Lovely colleagues and work from home benefits

Upper management have no clue what they're doing. Don't listen to colleagues who warn that products are not ready for national rollout, or about potential critical bugs. Advice is ignored, tons of bugs tidal in, and then they have the cheek to state "IT is not working" and present a massive department redundancy as a "restructure" under "project synergy", minus 8 roles that were kept on. Teams that were in-sourced around only a year ago have now been yet again outsourced and even companies that provided contractors were also affected and messed about. Cost-cutting measures implemented because that's all the rage today and the mention of two little letters (AI) because all business and management people want to do is follow the trend is "leverage" AI when they have no idea what that means and can't even manage timelines, onboarding or expectations and teams to create simple non-AI products, never mind anything complicated. Also the add the cherry on top, logistics including payslips were messed up with during the "project synergy" transition. WFH is good but double-edged sword in the fact very weak culture as a result, but overall the culture was good within IT but the disconnect between IT and upper management was incredible. I wish nothing but contempt for the fools responsible for this incredibly erratic business decisions during my relatively short time at the company.

Some genuinely good and supportive people to work with Teams at engineer level often try their best despite constraints

Lack of effective leadership and clear technical direction Poor communication across teams and management layers No clear prioritisation, resulting in large backlogs of critical work Significant backlog of unresolved security vulnerabilities Frequent organisational changes creating instability and uncertainty