Everyone cares a lot about what they do, especially about project work. People genuinely want to make an impact on improving the public sector, and they dare throwing out even more ambitious proposals. This definitely stimulates and challenges many public servants.
Cons
It's been expanding so quickly that the smaller team family vibe is perhaps slowly going away. The new more contractor model is also making high-pace work harder.
Great people, spirit of collaboration and transparency.
The work we do is really meaningful and exciting, FG really cares about delivering good work and positive impact.
Good communityof practices, loads to learn!
Cons
Exhausting job.... a lot of turnover (people are exhausted after 1-2 years here!) the pace is crazy (always working in agile sprints). With often a lot of travel involved (be ready to spend months going back and forth between London and Newcastle, Dorchester etc.)
- Amazing peers, brilliant + talented workforce who really care about social impact.
- Exposure to lots of great projects, clients are interesting/varied on projects and good mix of small to large scale.
Cons
- Senior leadership, poor communication, lack of honesty particularly across Delivery + HR and lack of equality in decisions like progression
- Diversity and inclusion at a cultural level is non existent
- Work/life balance is poor, with working above seniority level dressed up as 'opportunity' or being given too much work as being gifted responsibility.