Acturis Reviews

The salary is uncompetitive, especially after a few years in the role - after 2-3 years at Acturis you have more than enough experience to be applying for roles in other companies paying £55-60k, when Acturis will have you on (at best) £45k at that point. They claim to have a mathematical system for calculating salary changes, this ultimately boils down to an unquestionable black box they use to avoid any discussion about your pay change being unfair or insufficient. The workload can often spike for periods of up to a month when multiple projects coincide - there's no recompense for when you work over your hours (other companies which offer actual flexi time have schemes for repaying overworked hours like flexi balances, here you get nothing) The hours are long. You are contracted to 40 hours, but if you actually take your lunch break, you're doing 45 (9-6 every day). This is more than needed, studies have shown longer hours make people less productive. They claim to have flexi time - 9-5 with a "flexible hour either side" is not flexi time. The turnover rate is very high because of the lack of progression and the poor pay once you get experience - I am the most senior (excluding management) member of my team at 2 years, everyone above me (was 3 when I joined) has now left.

Salary not competitive, based mostly on length of time spent at the company The company being happier to let someone go and hire a graduate means most of the developers who wrote major pieces of software have left No internet on VDI's, no personal choice of tooling and software, laborious process to get something as simple as a javascript library VDI's were under-resourced, resulting in a lot of wasted time Team structure results in questions to other teams being ignored, with poor communication and frustrating email exchanges