Connect Group Reviews

No pay reviews. If you want more pay, you have to threaten to leave or be one of the favourites. They focus on the positive benefits - like the £250 voucher that they give all staff at the end of the year (who have been there for a year of course), and flexible hours, and a subsadised gym membership, to try and avoid talking about pay reviews, bonuses, etc. The benefits aren't over and above what you'd expect from an employer who wants to take care of their staff, even if they try to make out like they are! The culture club is fantastic, and really does bring spirits up. However the company is focusing on mental health to seem like a new-age modern company, but completely ignoring the fact that they're causing their own staff problems with mental health through pressure and poor management. Senior management seem to openly be dishonest. They hire completely unreasonable/untalented people into management roles, and expect the good staff who actually deserve the senior roles to look after the clients without any pay reviews or bonuses or appropriate support. It's causing a poisonous atmosphere, and it's a real shame because it attracts talented people, so could be fantastic but the talented people instead just leave.

We do we begin? Several senior members of staff are completely unsuitable to their positions. Everyone knows who these people are. Some have certain other qualities that may appeal to the directors... Very senior staff - dim, blustering, complacent, and autocratic, and unused to being challenged - run the business as if it were a personal hobby. The company relies on a single contract with a large car manufacturer that is itself having severe difficulties and moving production abroad. Some years ago, one technology-led product formed the basis of the initial involvement with this manufacturer and it's this, and this alone, that's kept the show on the road. Everything else the company does are irrelevant vanity projects that give directors a reason to swan off down to London for the usual incestuous industry awards, with previously-mentioned unsuitable staff in tow for the eye-candy. Don't believe the short film, if it's still being used, that shows happy staff merrily going about their terribly interesting work. It really isn't like that and if your face doesn't fit, you're out with no explanation.