Pros
The people here really made it special. I guess the camaraderie between us all working through tough times was truly the best part.
Cons
- The salaries here are an absolute joke. The bands between roles could be 25k between a mid level and senior role. - The amount of redundancies that we lived through, for a 400 person company was astounding. I have never worked in a place where each org faced redundancies at different times (maybe to prevent a collective consultation?) - They'd hire in 'leadership' with zero experience, let them change everything, then we'd watch them (suspiciously and quietly) disappear. Paying people off to leave is a signature move of GWI. - Hired on the pretence it would be fully remote (job description did NOT say there was a mandatory day in the office). Then they upped it to two days for no reason. Even when you try to do the right thing and request a flexible working request, it gets denied because "changes are coming". So people now HAVE to come in twice a week to sit on virtual meetings - Planning and executing a Sales Kick Off during a redundancy consultation period is absolutely insane and a kick to those people already down (especially when cost cutting is a reason) - Leadership who use AI like no tomorrow. Full FY plans quite obviously created by AI that we were to follow to a T - The values meant absolutely nothing. If your leadership can't live them, why should we? - The people that are still there are only there because they have LOTS of shares and are hoping one day they'll be able to sell them (good luck) - Product roadmap decisions change with the wind - The Marketing restructure was hugely detrimental to morale and I think spelled the end of things - Absolutely no opportunity to progress.
