Top-down “Simon Says” culture in a highly silo’d business - Senior User Experience Architect NEXT Employee Review

2.0
3 Feb 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing food in the subsidised canteen Great people Good base salary

Cons

Zero autonomy Dictatorship Conservative Silo business factions Terrible development platform and infrastructure Too many long in the tooth employees in middle management who have been there for years Simon Wolfson has far too much of a say on how the user-interface of the website should look and feel Simon says culture Old school work practices The opposite of Agile Lots of teflon shoulders Scapegoating and blame culture

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