Optus Reviews

Toxic culture. Senior leaders lie to you about development roles, they string you along to do the work with false hopes and promises then promote the young, single and less experienced in leadership roles for less pay. They constantly lie to you about where your pay sits on the REM scale (I mean seriously staff have access to information so we can tell when you’re lying!) They deny you promotions citing no budget or the promotion cycle happens only once a year yet special pets and favourites get promotions every year (same people being advanced all the time). Feels like being in school again. Senior leaders back stabbing other senior leaders by spreading hatred and spread fear of repercussions just for speaking up or against processes. If you don’t maintain a positive vibe 100% of the time, you get branded as being negative. Can be so exhausting

Senior leadership are not held accountable, gaslighting is the way to a promotion and it all rests on the shoulders of middle management to set the strategy and deliver the outcomes whilst also coping the criticism when outcomes are not delivered without consideration of under resourcing and lack of investment in systems and tools. Middle management are forced to deliver redundancy conversations every quarter and are then scrutinised for not “leading through change” or buying in, whilst senior leadership battle each other in political land grabs thirsting for power. HR run the business, the leadership team are forced to value compliance to policy vs high performance. An over focus on diversity causes an unconscious bias and discriminates against certain demographics. Token female hiring policies mean hiring managers are forced to hit quotas in certain categories. Core values are shoved down your throat however there are some core values you best avoid. “Speak up” is swiftly followed by being on the next round of exits so best to keep your mouth shut. If you want to achieve anything internally, best get used to governance review forums, writing PowerPoint presentations and memo’s. The open door policy is out the door, so best to figure out how to request a meeting and get in line. Optus has lost its way, most are waiting for a redundancy so they can leave with a payout.