Poor leadership and lack of strategic direction - Platform Engineer 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.

Colleagues were really good people with a passion to move the business in a good direction.

Mass redundancies, very little support offered through the journey, a wealth of passion and experience lost due to incredibly poor leadership, the constant changes in managers, goals, zero alignment across departments etc.