Pros
WFH option (not really a pro anymore though, considering most companies offer this now) Great colleagues (sadly most of them had left) Nice modern office
Cons
Longer hours than average (40) Awful salaries for the industry (colleagues have left for other companies for DOUBLE the salary in some cases) Less holidays than average (admittedly you do get 25 days, however only after 5 years of service, which 95% of staff don't) Company values used in all aspects of the business to the point where it feels like a cult dictatorship (you can't just vote for someone who's doing a good job, has to fit into their values) Constructive honest feedback that are of the majority are not welcome & ignored (you are seen as negative, must be positive at all times) No appreciation or a simple thanks for the effort put in (there's a company chat for praise, however only engineers and support techs are ever brought up as they are customer facing) Kind of company that boasts record profits year after year but yet will charge you for extra work uniform if you want some, take that as you will Used COVID as an excuse for no pay rises but yet managers got new company cars that year If the stars align and it's a full moon, 1k pay rise is the standard. Excellent when cost of living has had it's highest increase in 30 years Make staff "redundant" but yet hire for the same role by simply changing the job title Once had great family culture, now a corporate call center only focused on stats and graphs that are meaningless (complexity & time are the same metric apparently) A software company that has lost half of it's developers in space of a month, brushed off with no care & refusal to pay them their worth (replaced with cheap Filipino's that will take years to learn the bespoke product) "Dev" manager...if that's what you can call him has no place in the role, about as much use as sunglasses to a blind man having come from a support call center background with 0 development/programming knowledge. Only interested in stats to make himself look good in front of directors. Micro managing at every step wanting updates that can clearly be seen by the ticket boards Trying to bully staff into signing 3 month notice contracts because staff are dropping like flies
