Collinson reviews about "senior management"

The senior management are absolutely toxic. They are some of the worst people you will ever come across and are very fake and passive aggressive. They treat you like you're worthless, they are manipulative, narcissistic and are very biased towards females. Many of the finance function are from the South Africa region so unless you are from there or are prepared to worship the ground they walk on you will very likely have a difficult time and if you have ambitions to grow then forget about working for this company it will be a waste of time unless you obviously need a job to get you by.

Top heavy structure with a lot of people out of their debt and stuck in old and counterproductive ways Bullying is a common practice that is rewarded aligned with nepotism and heavy politics Micromanagement and senior management too involved in day to day activities Unclear direction, strategy and lack of personal development for anyone below Director level High turnover without business continuity or reward to those who stick around Self interested and egotistic senior leadership

Senior management has no clue what they are doing String people along for career advancement and then lay them off Expanding "legacy" systems Focus is all short term In the almost 4 years I was here I received one 3 day formal training session Most teams have a mix of people doing nothing and some doing everything Despite having a business that is built on "family" and "doing the right thing" the management made countless mistakes managing their product and tech, instead of looking to improve they notified over 100 people they could be made redundant and the cycle will continue when this managemennt inenvetably fails and the next one comes along.

There is a scope for better transparency and communication from management

- Small but growing team - Highly entrepreneurial culture that sometimes lacks structure; this works great for some people, but not great for others, specially those that require clear pathways and structure to be successful - Opportunity to improve products and overall value proposition

I don't have anything to complain about.

Tech Leadership is poor and does not communicate well to the whole division. Constant restructure from leadership and poor comms has lead to confusion and low productivity, yet the development teams are to blame for this. There are many great people working in Collinson, it is a shame that senior management does not value this.

Senior management lacks of strategic thinking and decision making. Needs to improve training and education for employees.