Management is extremely awful, biased, and incompetent, and they cannot get any worse than they already are.
I started the role in mid-2024 at the Lloyds Halifax office. In the first three months, I was not assigned any task or work. When I raised this with my line manager, who had herself started only a few weeks earlier and had zero engineering background, she replied that it was my responsibility to find work within Lloyds. She also said that if she had to assign tasks to me, I would need to move to a lower grade with a deduction in my salary.
When I challenged her about the lack of support, she went to HR and tried to place me on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) within the first three months of my time at Lloyds. She had to step back when I escalated the matter to her manager.
After four months, I was asked to complete a skills assessment test like others, even though I had already gone through four stages of interviews and a technical test before securing the role at Lloyds.
In February 2025, Lloyds went through Platform 3.0. The same manager conducted my performance review, and I was placed on a PIP that was less technical and more behavioural. After four weeks, my line manager informed me that she was closing the PIP but could restart it whenever she wanted.
In late 2025, she told me that I would have to either take voluntary exit or go through a formal review plan after receiving engineering related feedback from another engineer. During the meeting, I was thinking that if feedback from a single individual was so critical, then she herself should have left long ago, given what I had heard others say about her.
Before making a decision, I asked her finally about my chances of passing the formal review plan, and she replied that we had never got along well. So, read between the lines.
I eventually decided to exit the group voluntarily, as it was not worth staying in the group.
