Orange Bus Reviews

Everything! The most disorganised, unsupportive, egotistical environment. Senior management have little idea how to drive the ship resulting in multiple redundancies (handled poorly) and existing staff struggling to manage

It was great to start with and I was hoping to stay here for a long time but my job was so frantic and it was more reactive over proactive when it came to getting stuff done. Even things as simple as trying to book a space to do work was near on impossible!! And it has to be said that the "positive" reviews straight after a neutral/not so good one is an OBVIOUS tactic from certain senior individuals!! I was going to rate 2/3* but after reading these attempts to wash out peoples opinions I can't get behind that!! These so called genuine very positive reviews/opinions are a false economy and they themselves should be “taken with a (large) pinch of salt”. I have heard through current colleagues/friends at OB that the company has plans in place for change but in my case this was too late and there was no continuation/follow through after staff engagement things happened early in the year. (maybe there was but there wasnt any clear communication?) The final straw for me was being kept very very busy in my role to the point where I had too much on and decided I had to leave, for my mental health and for my career. I couldnt switch off when I got home as I numerously had to work late/at home and it was affecting my home life. The salary wasnt reflective of the amount of work i had put on me. But thankfully I now work for a better salary with a better workload and healthy work/life balance, which in reflection to my time at OB, put things into perspective for me of how unhealthy the workload was. And also the turnover of people meant I was either picking up someone elses work or having to keep onboarding someone new. And now I've heard (and read!!) senior team are trying to silence their staff to not write negative things about OB on glassdoor which is a PUBLIC SPACE and personally I think is complete cheek to do. So I decided to share my HONEST experience. I didnt have much interaction with senior team or the CEO, the only time you would hear/see him would be him raising his voice at someone which is obviously not nice to witness, or the demand to have radio 6 on!? Overall I was quite sad to leave OB because it was sold to me as a real door opener for my career in terms of the projects i could work on and the "perks" didnt play up to scratch to my expectations.