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One of the worst companies to work for. - Recensione dipendente - Engineer presso Connect Support Services

1,0
21 mar 2017
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

I did not experience any Pro's other than some engineers we're really great, kind people.

Svantaggi

Possibly one of the worst working environments I have ever seen, many other engineers agreed with this. - Equipment is lacklustre and it's very difficult to do your job to a good standard, being an IT engineer providing remote support you need a PC that has good specs, we were working on second hand re-imaged old client dual core machines that were definitely not up to the standard, along with poor chairs and poor headsets for the phone systems. - The management there clearly do not have any IT intellect and its hard to work with them. - There is a revolving door policy there, during my time we saw plenty of engineers come and go over a number of months, it was quick to see everyone have the same kind of opinion on the place. - Management have their staff 'favourites' this is very clear to see when jobs are handed out to engineers and engineers are chosen to visit client sites. The escalation process for support ticket is a shambles. - Do not expect to grow positions within this company, you could deal with 40-50 issues a day and they still wouldn't even compliment you on doing a great job for their company. - Expect to spend most of your day answering phone calls, kind of like a call centre from 7:30am-4:30pm/9:00am till 5:30pm all day. The management run a very strict regiment on the small breaks you take and will always be watching you within the phone clocking system. Expect meetings if you are 1/2 mins late back clocking into their phone system. - Should you leave the company do not expect any kind of references from them. - Expect to be micro-managed throughout your whole day, questions are asked all the time on why you are doing certain things. Like I said above the escalation process is a complete shambles for a remote support company.

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1,0
23 lug 2018
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

The fear driven management style forces you to acquire skills of closing tickets quickly. They pay for Microsoft exams They had an Xbox to play at lunch times

Svantaggi

Fear driven management style Mercelesly firing employees, I saw a number of employees fired Shocking salaries, I was being paid £4 an hour as an apprentice and had unreasonable expectations I was sometimes 3 minutes late and was issues a warning as a result of this, my manager even set my PC to automatically turn off to make me sign in even later Being interrogated for taking off sick days Favouritism of staff, I recall being blamed for a colleague not doing something we agreed to do out of hours as I was on the early shift I would have my manager standing behind me as I was speaking to users on the phone to make me nervous I was an apprentice and I was prevented from visiting my training provider The company paid time and a half for overtime I was an apprentice and expected this but I was given the standard rate I also worked more than my legal allowance as I was under 18 When one of my colleagues left the company tried to make him feel bad making as if he used the company when in reality Connect used apprentices exploiting young workers I was told that the 2nd like engineer was told they would earn around 14k per year which is shocking I would have long meetings with my manager for minor mistakes Lack of career progression Mistakes with my holiday allowance

1,0
29 dic 2016
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Engineers that worked there were great - a good diversity that is left unappreciated by the management when they eventually leave. Potential for skilling up.

Svantaggi

Huge staff turnaround - in two years over 40 people have started/left the company. There is little room to implement and lasting solutions due to all the energy being spent on 'status quo'. When a customer joins, there is no move to bring them to 'Best Practice' - status quo is the goal. Management is exceptionally poor with little regard to company direction, staff morale and overall comes across rather incompetent.

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