Pros
Nice office location in Paddington by the canal and the occasional yummy Friday lunches. Small teams so employees can easily engage and collaborate. A select few of the managers are, inspiring, compassionate and macro manage which is great for employee morale (If given the liberty by company directors, some of these managers will exceptional leaders)
Cons
Where do I begin? How do I coin my words and embellish the truth so the company doesn't look as bad.... I shall do my very best. • Leadership is CRAPPPPPPPPPPP • HODs are a walking personification of micro management. Your work is constantly being interrupted. It is suffocating. • Employees are not empowered to carry on confidently with their roles and responsibilities • The company is supposedly meant to be adept in Lean Six Sigma but I can assure all readers that it is not. The company takes the longest route to everything and as such there is a lot of waste in terms of time and resources. • Unrealistic expectations consistently being set for employees to follow. Basically setting people up to fail. Directors make promises to the Executive Management Team without proper consultation on the size and complexity of tasks assigned. • For a small company we tend work in silos a lottttttttttt • Lack of organisational structure • Company has a complete disregard for employees with children especially those with young children. It's almost as if the world in Helios hasn't moved on since covid.... • Employees are heavily chastised for not coming into the office on all the enforced 3 days even though on most of those days there is nothing in particular to do in the office. Employees go in to still have meeting on Teams. How counterproductive is that? 3 days were introduced to encourage teams collaboration, this however has not been the case since it was introduced due to teams being in on different days. • Office rota is not fixed. Gentle warning for prospective employees, get live in child care and figure out how you will pay for it before you take on the job. • Leadership can be very petty. You will be asked to provide visual evidence on why you couldn't come into the office. • Preferential treatment is on public display. You needn't preen your eyes to see it (Some people are speedily promoted i.e. 2 promotions in 23 months while other can work to the ground and will barely get any promotion after many years of service. Loyalty is not rewarded) • They claim to listen but enact the exact opposite. • For a company with a large proportion of it's market and revenue being generated in Africa, Senior Leadership needs an injection of colour. It's too pastel at the top.