Basically functional but no upwards path - Developer Lombard Risk Employee Review

4.0
29 Apr 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Professional environment. Capable and human colleagues. No overtime culture, flexible with their hours. At one point I went nearly six weeks with no more than eight hours of time spent working. The rest was just waiting for work to come in. Both a pro, because it's easy, and a con, because it is boring.

Cons

There's very little direction coming from middle management. Oversight and planning is extremely sketchy. The processes of working are very rigid and bureaucratic, an example: an edict was handed down "ALL DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING TO BE DONE IN CHINA", and that all business knowledge was to be done in the UK. This predictably led to the office here (in the UK) filling up with people without much technical skills (so not knowing what their products can & can't do!), and the developers and testers in China having the usual Chinese problems - poor English, time differences causing lag in communications, and a unique way of doing things. In addition, the software practices here are rubbish. MANUAL testing. Point and click testing. This is something that should have died in the 90s. Developers hired without basic programming skills - one QA head had just learned how to write "Hello World" in VBA, outstanding. But to be clear, you're not exploited, you will do a fair amount of work for your wage, but you will never, ever move vertically. And it's ossified. So four stars.

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4.0
23 Jan 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some super smart people in key positions and new annual Town Hall Meeting where the CEO shares the direction and goals of Lombard Risk and express sincere appreciation for the staff's efforts. The continued efforts to formalize processes as we move from a small "mom and pop" company to a global company

Cons

LOTS of changes throughout the past several years makes for a very unsettling and disruptive atmosphere

1.0
31 Jan 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work life balance Excellent company if you know how to play management and like to delay everything by making everything look complex Excellent company if you like going to your manager for every little things. If yes you will be recognized and admired

Cons

Not a good comapny if you work hard Managers have no technical or people management skills Not a good company if you go quitely and professionally about your job as managers love people who come to them every few minutes and give them attention Management have some special people to whom they award ridiculous counters which is de-motivating other hard working employees No growth what so ever as they truly believe in people who continue doing same work day in and out without asking to do anything new You will learn nothing from management as they are bunch of people who live in there own world without knowing ground reality

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