Rowan Group (Manchester) Reviews

Don't join here if you value autonomy, a mature working environment or just being treated like an adult. Owner Paul Waite is a great rec con. However, he involves himself in everything from operations, marketing, internal recruitment, training etc etc - none of which he is qualified or knowledgeable in. The 'directors' in the company essentially just do what Paul tells them to do. Fortunately he has shocking attention to detail and is pretty easy to fob off with a few platitudes/flattery. If you do what Paul says, you'll stay, if you don't, he will find a way to manage you out or make your experience bad enough that you quit. My experience there was that essentially everyone was cracking on with their job and placating Paul at the same time, telling him what he needed to hear to get him to go away and let them do their job. The other main issue is the software product 'leadership dynamics'. This is a very expensive program that seems to quantify leadership traits by - wait for it - scouring the candidate's LinkedIn profile for the cheaper version and getting them to answer a questionnaire for the pricier version. It can be gamed very, very easily. It uses a complicated set of algorithms to do this, and you have lifelong rec cons trying to understand this and communicate it to clients. It's a shitshow and completely unnecessary IMO, not to mention unfair on the candidates it is trying to evaluate.