The place to work if you like process and being micro-managed by spreadsheets - Anonymous employee Brammer Employee Review

1.0
26 June 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Well-respected in market & good range of products to industry. Focus on showing customers how to improve their processes and save money in the process. Pay fairly competitive salaries

Cons

Poor quality senior management who believe they're always right - command and control structure - they don't want to hear employee ideas or feedback. The attitude really is think yourself lucky you work here - live to work we expect you to be available 24/7 Management competency is poor and employees are overworked and increasingly demotivated. You're micro-managed by spreadsheets and processes for the sake of processes and woe betide you if you dare question the process -no CI here!

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2.0
19 Feb 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Knowledgeable people in the company with some fantastic trainers

Cons

Training is crushed in to as small a time as possible in order to minimize costs - this means it is incredibly stressful and ineffective. Although they run projects across branches - there is little to no support in these. Recently undergone a big "shake up" meaning some management had to reapply for their own jobs - this means that the company is now mostly run by Buck & Hickman managers, some of them are great at the job whereas others are truly awful and moreover they will prioritize Buck & Hickman over Brammer every time. Job roles are unclear at the best of times and with this there is little to no direction on what you should be achieving other than rushing to invoice everything at the end of the month to drastically inflate figures. The systems are archaic and will not be invested in because they invested in Buck & Hickman instead. The big problem with this is that you need to price items - if you are inexperienced there is no model to go by for this and you will be regularly undercut by competition. Too many sales people and not enough leaders. There is no path of career progression and I noticed a lot of people just enjoying being comfortable within their roles. This stagnancy is not good for the growth of a company and these characters can typically create problematic atmospheres as experienced within my office.

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