Home Office reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(1,308 total reviews)
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Mark Sedwill

62% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Home Office has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,308 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Home Office employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Regierung & öffentliche Verwaltung industry (3.6 stars).

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2.0
Jun 14, 2022
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Pros

Good flexibility and that's about it

Cons

Doesn't pay enough for the responsibility on your shoulders or the scrutiny involved internally and externally. Massive recruitment drive but internally disorganised and left to find your own way in an extremely complex role. Training time scaled back from 6 months to 9 weeks leaves you under prepared.

1.0
Mar 27, 2022
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Pros

Good experience, you can learn how to interview, do practical research, casework, and actually make decisions. The work itself - interviewing asylum seekers, researching cases, casework, writing decisions - can actually be interesting.

Cons

Effectively you're a junior immigration solicitor, but on less than £25k and with 2-3 weeks training. Main cons: the lack of consistency and honesty in management, the sales targets culture to getting decisions done, the literally impossible targets, the endless feedback sessions by consultants that literally never gets listened to, there are very limited progression opportunities and most of them go to the managers' pets and brown-nosers, also the bullying can be really bad - manager's following you into the toilets to ask why you aren't at your desk, demanding you come into the office for no reason, pestering you all day to get a decision done without offering any support to help progress it.

2.0
Jan 23, 2020

Enployment

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Pros

They have flexible working hours, so you can start at 7:30am and finish at 3:45pm.

Cons

Dispute the Home Office promoting diversity it is an extremely bigoted organisation where bullying does take place within the workplace. Rules are bent by management, who regularly work from home without informing staff and work from home over the limit they are supposed to. Management also had no idea with regards to the actual work the juniors grades did. The Home Office has double standards and is not very well organised.

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