Tepid office environment, micro-management of staff, low bids make for tight project budgets.The good things- Hires experts and specialists and places them in technical director positions - those from post-grad backgrounds are super-helpful.
- Mentorship scheme and progression initiatives are genuine.
- Positive experiences possible, might be team dependant.
The challenges- Brand new office facilities - utterly tepid and soul destroying vibe.
- No billable work? FIND SOME QUICK and get networking, otherwise you will never have enough billable work. Your team leader will only go out to bat to find work for you if/when they have time. They also micro-manage you into oblivion.
- All field assignments were given to the cheapest staff (Grads).
- If you use the internal job code (for no billable work), good luck - if you use it too often you get red flagged.
- Every minute between 9am and 5:30pm is sacred. Dont expect any banter with your colleagues working on different projects to you.
- Senior employees on long-term projects tend to take on way too much, or choose to do so to make themselves redundancy-proof.
- Colleagues appeared to be living in fear.
- Flexible work arrangements available, but office days are mandatory - seems utterly pointless - you will interact more with people on Teams than in the office.
-HR quality is meme-able.