The company works on a performance curve in departments which forces people to be marked down into lower tiers, this system was denied to exist this year by the CEO Stephen Kelly in an internal broadcast, but lone behold after the falling sales targets it magically made a return to stop people progressing and getting bigger bonuses (if any), seems like a cost cutting exercise to me (along with laying off senior staff and sales staff to make up the short fall in cash). Seems to be his philosophy is somethings going wrong? let's fire a bunch of people to make myself look better instead of thinking it might be me who's the issue which according to a lot of the reviews on here he is.
The upper levels of management or whoever created them have gave the business a set of 6 objectives that you must fill, no matter what role you're in apparently. These involve stuff that has NOTHING to do with the job description you're hired under, for example one of the objectives; Customer Obsession. As a Developer I'm hired to DEVELOP software that the company asks for, I'm sure in some departments these objectives fit into their agenda but not for R&D.
Deadlines aren't set by the development team, it doesn't matter if you're asked how long it'll take and it'll take 2 months longer than the release date to implement it, marketing will tell you how long it'll take and that's your deadline date.
Everybody in the department is graded based on the same criteria, it doesn't matter if you're a junior or a senior you're all expected to do the same amount of work to meet the expectations of the business, and if you're not; you're failing the company and need to improve. Fantastic way to motivate your staff!
Some more stuff to do with the business such as technical support roles being give a sales target when they're here to help solve issues with the program is just funny in my opinion, "My program isn't working can you help?" - "Yes but first let me try and sell you another part of the program that probably won't work and you really won't need"; comical.
There's a lot of reviews on here from apprentices; strange because it seems to be that 75% of them have left the business, why are they writing 5 star reviews about the business and then leaving? Seems like an objective to me, along with the objective to reach 4 stars on here.
I look forward to the copy and pasted response about thanks for the feedback that won't be fed back to anyone in the company because they don't really care as long as moneys flowing in.
