Avoid - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso BridgeU

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24 feb 2024
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Remote working. Great peers. Birthday off.

Svantaggi

Day to day work: - 9am and 5pm meetings are standard, great when you have children to drop off at school - Lunchtime all-company meetings are commonplace Incompetent HR Have to be given permission to do things - not allowed to work on your own initiative Top heavy org - firing workers and hiring more and more VPs Nepotism - Hiring friends as contractors on £800 per day - Complaining there is “no budget” - Making people redundant to replace with contractors after 6 months Compensation: - Promotions without pay rises - Hiring & pay freezes - Salaries already below market rate and falling - No opportunity for progression in a shrinking team - Cannot hire replacements as anybody that values themselves does not apply - Neurodivergent? Don’t even bother applying. - Remaining people expected to backfill roles and do the job of 3 people with zero acknowledgement, appreciation, or respect. - “You’re lucky to have a job” mentality. Toxic environment - Encouraged to throw others under the bus to save your own skin and avoid being cut - Told not to “work late” whilst simultaneously rewarding those who do - Speaking up is encouraged, and then immediately used to discipline you - Harassment and bullying is commonplace Change for change sake - Mentality that change is good, with no consideration for the impact of change - Sometimes a change can be worse, more often than not within this org Wild hockey stick revenue predictions based on no data or roadmap - Workers punished when insane projections are not met - Underfunded business in a now oversaturated market - Better funded competitors in the space that are accelerating away, leaving BridgeU in the dust

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13 giu 2025
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

In its current guise, nothing.

Svantaggi

During my time at BridgeU I have seen: - Most senior technical staff leave, averaging 1 per month. - Leadership U-turns are a regular occurrence. - A team sore from redundancies only to be met with more redundancies the next year. - A legacy application where trying to make any kind of change feels like herding cats. - An acquisition where most of what remained of the tech team was laid off despite reassurances that there would be long term engineering effort in the UK. On the acquisition... upon announcement we were informed that a strategic review was underway. This is code for "We're making redundancies". Our first meeting with the new CEO was a spectacle where he bragged about his business acumen. Shared how he had declined to buy a Ferrari so he could buy BU and complained that most of his new minions had their cameras off. Additionally, the current CEO spent 5 minutes sucking up to his new boss about how great the acquisition process was, especially since the new boss had just had a baby. Those of us who were worried about feeding our own children didn't appreciate it. Due to the political situation in the US and the recent announcements regarding immigration in the UK, this business probably has a limited lifespan. To my former colleagues in all areas of the business, get out as soon as you can.

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4,0
3 nov 2025
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Amazing culture, considerate, inclusive, kind, everything I thought didn't exist anymore in the corporate world.

Svantaggi

Just a bad product with a lack of innovation due to limited funds I believe. I think the company was actually bought out after I left as it was really struggling. A shame as such brilliant people within the team.

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