Some great people but no clear strategy - Anonymous employee Seccl Employee Review

1.0
14 Sept 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are some amazing and talented people across the business and career progression is possible for those that are willing to graft for it.

Cons

Used to be a great place to work but now a business that continues to over promise and under deliver. I agree with a previous review that the emphasis has been on growth rather than execution. However, the approach to achieving this growth often lacks clarity, with the company frequently repeating the same mistakes without learning from them. This approach creates a heavy reliance on key personnel, leading to a high-pressure, long-hours environment for essential staff which has resulted in a large number of people leaving the business burnt out. In my view, this is largely due to a lack of domain or technical expertise among a few senior decision-makers and other parts of the business who's word is final, resulting in uninformed decisions that have affected the company's ability to follow through on its plans leaving it constantly putting pressure on teams to play catch up. The company's trajectory is not sustainable and needs a complete reshape of strategy, structure and leadership.

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Seccl Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your experiences of working at Seccl, it’s great to see you shout out our amazing and talented people. Our purpose is to build technology that helps more people to invest – and invest well. Sounds simple enough, but in reality, there’s a lot of work to do and a LOT of lessons to learn along the way. We agree with you that we must get the balance right between growth and product delivery to succeed, and we’re working on that. We are pleased that our new CTO, Tom Harris joined us last month to help align our engineering roadmaps with the product roadmap, growth plans and our overall business strategy to move forward together. We don’t deny that Seccl is a hard fast-paced working environment – but would like to encourage anyone who feels that they can’t cope with their workload to speak to their people leader or leadership team, so we can try to resolve it. We also have free wellbeing resources via ‘the Shed’ if they need any outside support. We encourage everyone to feedback and ask questions at our monthly All company calls, speak to your people leader, a member of the exec team or alternatively to speak in confidence with the people team. This is to ensure that we can make positive changes based on your experience. Please also share your thoughts further on what you need to help you deliver via our upcoming engagement survey later this month. Thank you for your feedback.

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