FuturU Reviews

2.4

26% would recommend to a friend

(9 total reviews)

26% positive business outlook

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1.0
29 Nov 2024

Classist management without a clue how to run a successful company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It used to be a great place to work whith a different CEO, he had a vision and understood projects took time. The only good thing about FuturU is the people, everyone outside of management is lovely and works hard no matter how little some people in other teams got paid.

Cons

Most of the new upper management never had a clear mission and goal in mind when managing the company. Wasting money and time on projects that were clearly not going to create any revenue, and once said project was completed and no one signed up, mass redundancies happend (it was clear this was a waste of time to everyone bar the C Suite). But don't worry getting laid off isn't a big deal, its easy to get jobs now days apparently, in this amazing job market and to just get over it since it was harder to get a job in the 80s and 90s. We had a fantastic revenue generating product idea in development, but the time the team needed to be able to build it was not there and instead the teams wasted time on constant context switching. From never fully marketing the products to appeasing the partner company to support them which did not generate revenue. Its as if the C Suite set the product out to fail from the start. Once a quiet merge began to happen between FuturU and the partner company Newcross. People started loosing jobs to people inside Newcross. I don't expect FururU to last until April, it will be taken over by staff in Newcross, all work passed over with also mass redundancies there. It is clear both companies are in huge trouble. I have never worked somewhere where I felt so gaslit at every turn, Context switched every week due to C suite not being able to decide what to invest resource into, went through 20 roadmaps, failed products and upper management who sneakily tries to undercut people from other teams and butt in to work they had zero knowledge or experience in to make themslves look busy and big.

1.0
15 Nov 2024

Gaslight Factory

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Pros

Remote working, talented individuals, collaborative team culture, lots of innovation (at the beginning), always learning budget (at the beginning - once his other business went down the gutter and budget became an issue - apparently you should just 'read free online articles or go to a public library and read a book' - quote from the owner of the company.)

Cons

Missed opportunities when the vision was crystal clear to be executed on. Everyone was on board to deliver better learning experience for health care workers and perhaps different industries in the future. Instead of focusing on this, there was just wasted effort in tip toeing around key decisions. There was too many people in leadership group which all had their own opinions on random things or just there to have their egos massaged. It was a perpetual feeling of no decisions were ever made, once in a blue moon when they were made, it was too late and confusing for everyone. Weekly town halls would be filled with questions with non-answers, but they would be happy to randomly pick people from the chat list to describe their joy moments, even when half of their colleagues were laid off, read the room, what a terrible way to start a town hall. The first wave of lay offs were at leadership level, fair enough, made sense due to salaries. Everyone were reassured jobs were safe as there was plenty of run way, 'because budget are set start of the year', I am still hearing people are being laid off at a rapid rate. It makes me sick to my stomach at how badly this has been mismanaged. The education team are bringing in most of the revenue from assessments, probably the least paid out of all the different verticals of the business, they deserve more as they work so hard to keep the business going. The latest that I had heard was, in a recent town hall from existing employees that, the lay offs are difficult for the managing director. 'it's easy for them to get a new job these days'. The guy is playing the victim while putting more people out of jobs. I can only imagine what types of goals he has to 'sort out' the business, what underlying big bonus that we do not know about. The owner of the business treat this as a vanity side project of theirs, would attempt to reassure everyone post lay offs with a speech of pure lunacy and would straight up insult staff as if they are beneath them. They are so out of touch and in this business for the wrong reasons. They are not here to help people at all as much as they think they are. They are looking to squeeze as much out of healthcare workers as possible and maximising their dividends to continue living in the tax haven Gibraltar, sipping cocktails on their yachts.

1.0
24 Oct 2024

A shell of its former self

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Remote working is fantastic, benefits package is ok, most people in all teams are great, and the vision of free universal learning for health and social carers is amazing (until they fired their CEO, made multiple redundancies and cut most funding)

Cons

The company owners set massively high unachievable targets against budget, which never come close to being met. Resulting in multiple rounds of sudden redundancies. Little sympathy from leadership, apart from attempts to provide sentimental words of courage, all whilst collecting obscene salaries and delivering nothing

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