Vantaggi
Dress down fridays. Commaradary and support with close colleagues. Free drinks. Good BUPA healthcare. Although if you offered to work all hours god sends management wouldnt stop you in the interests of your work life balance so you are free to go bang on 5pm.
Svantaggi
The p&p reviews (box ticking exercise) Bonuses for the staff you never see. Lack of headcount to properly resource and manage a fair and reasonable workload. Totally inadequate (brand new but inefficient) systems that regularly freeze, run at snails pace or completely go down. Being told the company is doing great 11 months of every year but in the 12th month at pay review time theres never any money "in the pot" yet we hear of people offered more only once theyve threatened to leave? As above no expectation to work unpaid hours but you wouldnt be stopped doing them. No point anyway because it wont give you a 1 or a 2 in your performance review anyway. The company systems and processes pun you back from really going above and beyond your regular role simply because youre too tied up trying to simply achieve the work you already have in your own teams bubble!