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      RVU

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      RVU Reviews

      3.9

      69% would recommend to a friend

      (106 total reviews)
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      Tariq Syed

      80% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Culture and values

      4.1

      Diversity and inclusion

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.7

      Senior management

      RVU has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 106 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The RVU employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

      Reviews by job title

      106 reviews
      2.0
      26 Aug 2022

      Don't join

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      some genuinely nice people in the company

      Cons

      - no strategy/vision - toxic environment where even HR people/recruiters spread false rumours - women are not welcome, especially if they have an opinion and express it or try to make things change - HR will bury cases of sexism and harassment, even defend the perpetrators especially if they are SLT or have been in the business for a long time - performance reviews, promotions and salary raises are highly biased - no D&I actions - salary and benefits are not interesting, they cut on almost all benefits this year

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      RVU Response
      3y
      I’m upset that this has been your experience of RVU and disappointed we have clearly failed in our efforts to make your tenure with us a positive one. I am unaware of HR ever ‘burying’ a case of sexism or harassment, we are committed to ensuring a safe environment for all employees and thoroughly investigating any complaints made. We have robust procedures in place that all Heads of HR adhere to. Please contact me directly to confidentially discuss all concerns you have in this area. If you do not feel confident doing that, please accept my commitment to reviewing any allegations. Whilst accepting your perspective, and recognising we have lots of progress to make, I would not agree that women are unwelcome or that we are anything other than fully committed to making progress in our diversity, equity and inclusion aims. Across performance reviews, promotions and salary increases we put an enormous amount of time into calibration, and are committed to transparency - publishing to the business how the % of female hires has been increasing, the % of female employees being promoted is proportional to male, and how % salary increases for female staff have equalled or exceed those of male colleagues over the last 2 years. We have a long way to go, but we are committed to the journey and must work harder to build trust in the business, something we have clearly not succeeded in to the degree we would like. Regarding benefits, we have increased spending on these year-on-year and we do continue to review them on an annual basis and rebalance towards our stated aims. One example is the pausing of free gym classes due to our hybrid working policy (though the free gym remains open). In other areas, we have directed money to becoming more family friendly by increasing paternity leave and offering IVF loans to our people. We have also invested benefits into improving health support for our people who need it. I appreciate not every benefit will work for every employee, but there has been no cut in the money we spend trying to provide comprehensive, progressive benefits for employees. Your experience of RVU so far has clearly been a poor experience. I accept your comments and we’ll look to improve in the areas highlighted. Whilst it can be uncomfortable for us to read opinions that reflect badly on the company, it’s important we hear them, recognise the message they are sending and try to do something about it. Colin Loth - Chief People Officer
      1.0
      4 Dec 2022

      Nonexistent leadership

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good people to work with, nice office and location, good work life balance

      Cons

      Leadership is non existent. Can't execute on anything. Too in the detail to see anything longer term. For example there's a weekly meeting on performance where 80+ employees focus on what happened, but no view on how that meeting ever changes what we proactively do or how it impacts what we work on. RVU CEO has no prior experience in the sector and doesn't know how to make their M&A strategy work. Every quarter US leader fly's in and all direction and strategy changes to adhere to their view. This quarterly shift means nothing ever actually gets finished. Uswitch CEO has no relevant experience, suppresses free opinions and pushes out people that challenge them. Having recently restructured, making redundant lots of more junior people that do the actual work, but in the same period hire a CMO and CPO on mega money. The only thing it appears the CTO does is ensure engineers get pay rises but nothing else. Doesn't influence on strategy as the Individual CEOs hold all the power.

      2.0
      17 Oct 2022

      Bad culture, lack of diversity and inclusion at the senior levels

      Data scientist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - Great colleagues as they were willing to help and collaborate - Free breakfast offered in office - Data-driven mostly, good if you're starting out as you get to do and learn a lot

      Cons

      - Bad apples at the senior levels led to discrimination and bad culture, where women were discriminated against (many women leaders left the company in the recent year and gender pay gap 2021 was as big as 33%). - Poor compensation and unequal pay (Human resources justified paying premium for external hiring and refused to compensate internal employee who delivered significant contributions). Inconsistent performance review systems across different functions. Any promotion and salary adjustments have to be agreed by all senior leadership team members so any internal pay rises is difficult. Pay band is non-existent or not transparent so hard to understand if pay is fair. - Company strategies / big rocks moved too slowly or struggled to adapt in light of the energy crisis, now resulting in proposed redundancies 1 year after to cut costs. - Top down management with little justification given to the rest of the company. - Tech debts were given less prioritisation for quick wins/low hanging fruit. Poor long vision for delivering good stable platforms or products.

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      RVU Response
      3y
      Thank you for taking the time to give this feedback. I’m upset that this has been your experience of RVU and disappointed we have clearly failed in our efforts to make your tenure with us a positive one. Whilst accepting your perspective, and recognising we have lots of progress to make, I would not agree that our leaders and culture are discriminatory towards women. We are fully committed to making progress in our diversity, equity and inclusion aims. It’s true our senior leadership does review pay as a group as we take the issue seriously. We want to ensure there is a consistent experience to reward which makes RVU an attractive place to work. So across performance reviews, promotions and salary increases we put an enormous amount of time into calibration, and are committed to transparency - publishing to the business how the % of female hires has been increasing, the % of female employees being promoted is proportional to male, and how % salary increases for female staff have equalled or exceed those of male colleagues over the last 2 years. We have a long way to go, but we are committed to the journey and must work harder to build trust in the business, something we have clearly not succeeded in to the degree we would like. RVU is a business which has delivered a lot this year and we regularly update our business on progress in monthly all-employee-meetings and other virtual and in-person events. We are now updating everyone on the KPIs of our strategy as we seek to be even more transparent on what is working at RVU and what isn’t. Our future in realising the advantage of our two largest brands and creating the best customer experience we can in over eight key product areas are key to this strategy which we’re really excited about building on as a team and for consumers.
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