Heywood Reviews

- Lack of flexible working hours - Terrible work review structure - For a self-proclaimed "Agile Tech" company they are unfortunately stuck with values that belong in a completely different business structure and century. Doomed to failure. To end with the worst (and due to the love for gossip, I know this will be mentioned in many of the productive "team meetings"): - Awful working atmosphere (with the obvious exception of a colleague - and as mentioned above, direct interaction with BAs and POs), a blame culture that will just never change since the main propellers of such culture are, apparently, "unfire-able" (as I've been told). So if you'd like to go through a few months/years of hating every minute of your day, from the moment you step in the office, please do become a Developer in Aquilaheywood.

It’s so laughingly obvious to all of us that all of the recent positive posts are written by the HR department - just look at how light on facts they are compared to any "real" reviews. Most of the other posts here are right that the blame culture is terrible and most of the 20yr plus dev staff are nice enough people but awful to work with and utterly clueless. Code systems are in the dark ages, no investment, no proper developer environments, terrible data security, no real penetration testing, the new infrastructure we need and were promised has been cancelled (because of cost?), the management team are at best impotent with an insecure CEO and it is the shareholder who is the real one in charge again. The last CEO who came in to change things resigned, the finance director resigned and the rest of the management are walking around like depressed ghosts and won’t answer any direct questions. I've had enough of being lied to and am looking for a new job. I’m certainly not the only one.