Pros
Genuinely nice and hardworking colleagues, exposure to a lot of functional areas, redundancy packages relatively generous
Cons
This is really difficult for me to write, as I used to be one of this company’s biggest cheerleaders. I grew my career with this company, and I am grateful for that. However, something has shifted in the culture in recent years and it’s not the place it used to be. The constant redundancies are exhausting, and everyone is just waiting for their turn. Redundancies are no longer announced (as there are far too many of them), so you usually find out that a person is gone when you try to email them. Those left behind are simply expected to do more with less, even though all those people are already working ridiculous hours to get the work done. No attempt is made to actually look at the business model, and the decision makers who should ultimately be held accountable seem untouchable (the same goes for those exhibiting toxic work behaviours). The LinkedIn marketing and the reality are very different. I can count on one hand the number of people I knew who could actually take ‘Happy Fridays’… the rest of us knew that we’d be made to feel guilty for taking them, or that we’d be making our workload even worse. Now that I’m out, I’ve realised how much happier I can be elsewhere. On the plus side, this place prepared me for literally anything that comes my way in the future. I feel awful for those left behind to somehow get the work done with the limited resources they have left, while trying to still believe in it all.