Employee Transparency Poor - USV Pilot XOCEAN Employee Review

Good work/life balance, interesting projects, many good colleagues.

Disconnected and unhelpful senior leadership team, more concerned with their bonuses and board of investors than their staff. Willing to hire rapidly and then will make redundancies (just in time for Christmas) but won't reduce bonuses for out of touch senior leadership team.

Working from home and working with some amazingly talented colleagues (vastly undervalued)

- Wrong people promoted into Management roles. Little to no experience / qualifications in the marine industry. - Payroll make constant mistakes. You’re always having to double check and fight with HR / Management to be paid what you’re owed. - False promises and constant dangling of the carrot on improved conditions when infact conditions became poorer and poorer. - Management and Senior Leadership team are noticeably out of touch and not familiar with the industry in which the company operates. - Certain members of the Senior Leadership Team laughed and smiled on teams calls whilst making a large portion of their core staff redundant in the run up to Christmas. - Redundancy process was full of errors and delays. - Marine team instructed by the former marine superintendent to break maritime law in certain jurisdictions to get the job done. Backed up by threats / intimidation. Told one thing in writing (legal) and verbally told to do another (illegal). - Doesn’t value actual industry experience / knowledge. Will use you and then spit you out when they are done without so much as a thank you. - Do not believe their figures on female employees within the marine industry. They use HR, Survey etc in these figures when in reality there was actually only 1 female working within the actual marine team as a Pilot. - Look good on LinkedIn but LinkedIn certainly doesn’t reflect reality. - Mass disorganisation since new structure brought in by COO from outside the industry with little to no understanding of the marine / survey industry. This in my mind has cost the company huge sums of money in part leading up to mass redundancies at the end of 2025.