Not good - Manager Bishop Fleming Employee Review

There are genuinely great people across the teams who support one another when things get tough and during busier times and deadlines. When clear answers aren’t available from management, it’s colleagues who step in as sounding boards and provide the support that’s missing, particularly if you are more junior.

What began as a few ‘isolated redundancies’ has evolved into a dismantling of teams, with little regard for the people left behind to absorb the workload and deal with the fallout. There has been no meaningful reassurance, no visible oversight, and certainly no sense that the impact on employees has been properly considered. Communication between leadership and staff has been deeply inadequate, lacking not only clarity but also basic professionalism and empathy, with just the repeated justification of ‘on going business reviews’. More concerning is the firm’s failure to address those who remain. No genuine effort has been made to communicate openly or provide reassurance, leaving morale at its lowest point across teams and offices and creating a culture where people feel they are constantly walking on eggshells. It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the impression that the firm’s priority is not its people, but its profit margins and expansion plans - even if that means cutting teams in half. The real question is how anyone is expected to feel confident about their future in a business that appears so willing to let people go without warning? Costs are being cut across the board, clearly at the expense of staff, even so‑called ‘perks’ are being stripped back. There’s no real investment in people and no scope for growth unless it comes at zero cost. The business has lost its way, expanded too fast, and forgotten the values it was built on.

- Great people in the main - Flexible work culture - Amazing place for trainees to start their career - Good exposure to a variety of work - Trusted to interact with clients from day one

- Losing personal feel - Emphasis on quality of data rather than senior development - Does not have sufficient internal operations to support current growth - Experienced, technically skilled employees are forced into mundane administrative tasks as a result of the above