One of the worst companies I’ve worked for - their website is a front for how poor it actually is! - Client Support Engineer razorblue Employee Review

1.0
8 Nov 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Exposure to many different IT vendors

Cons

- Not flexible on working hours. They allowed working from home but it is constantly challenged should you need to use it - Higher management need to see the bigger picture and see how unhappy their staff are - On call is ridiculous. You work on call for such a small wage uplift and you could be working hours on an issue and still have to go into work the next day. Not to mention the monitoring is so poorly setup that you were alerted too much about non issues that recovered instantly. - Management does not care about staff needs or training. It would be nice if training is actually provided when they say they’re going to provide. - No experience in Service Desk management, they treat you like you’re at school and have no previous experience. - SLA stats are just fudged time make it look like the company is confirming to the stats. It’s based on response rather than fix time. All you need to do is send a reply for the SLA to reset. - Pay rises are not given to those who actually deserve it. You could be working above and beyond and always work back and it is not recognised. Hard work truly goes unnoticed in this company. - They go on and on about perks of the jobs by giving you a free can of coke a day... I’d rather not have the coke if it meant my hard work went recognised. - No opportunity to progress, rather than promoting within, they come up with some excuse and then hire externally to save backfilling less senior members of staff.

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razorblue Response
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As we regularly reiterate to staff, there are many different routes you can use to raise concerns internally and it's disappointing that you have chosen to post them here instead. We're able to identify you from your review, so will take steps to sit down and discuss your concerns. To address them here since you have made them public: We are a service business which means we have to provide service when our customers want it, that means we can't be flexible with working hours within the department you work, even if we wanted to. This is the same in any IT Managed Services business. We agree that there are too many monitoring false positives. We're actively working to reduce the number of erroneous alerts with on-call shifts by trialling some new monitoring techniques, this has been ongoing for several weeks and is something that as part of the team, as someone who reads the updates, you will no doubt be aware of. Employees are paid for any additional hours they do whilst on call, and there is no requirement to come in early the next morning if you have been working through the night. This is regular practice and if you don't understand it, we'd suggest speaking to your line manager. If someone is "fudging" SLA stats as you put it, I'd reccomend you report this to your manager, or via the whistleblowing process if you feel you can't tell your manager. This is absoluetly not company policy and the company will deal with it as appropriate, when it is identified. Your comments about internal promotions are surprising since we have made 5 internal promotions in the last two months, and have replaced those who were promoted with new recruits at a lower entry level. We will only promote someone, though, when they are right for the role for which they have applied.

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