Opportunity to succeed further - IT Systems Engineer Transparity Employee Review

Genuinely remote-first — not just a perk on paper. The flexibility to work from anywhere is real and consistently respected across teams. The company invests in its people's development. Dedicated growth days and a training budget mean you're not left to figure out your own progression on your own time and dime. If you're early in your career, there are real opportunities to move up. Promotions aren't just theoretical — juniors who perform are recognised and given a clear path forward.

Management is laser-focused on timesheets and utilisation rates — output and impact take a back seat to whether your hours are logged correctly. The tech stack is a graveyard of spreadsheets. Every problem spawns a new one, and 'urgent' spreadsheet requests are a weekly occurrence. Proper tooling investment is long overdue. Blame culture is deeply embedded. Escalating to someone's line manager is treated as a first resort, not a last one — and if you're on the receiving end, you're guilty until proven innocent. Redundancies happen without warning, only for the same roles to be advertised months later. It leaves employees feeling disposable and undermines any sense of job security. Bureaucracy is suffocating. Getting anything done requires navigating layers of approval and process that seem designed to slow things down rather than protect quality.

Pays well and has a good culture to support their staff

A bit of a bubble of staff, if you’re not in it in you kind of feel like an outsider