Vantaggi
There is definitely a family feel in some teams, the pay is okay, and staff are great but this is as you would expect in any organisation. Site facilities are great, office locations can be a pain, particularly for parking but on site there is everything you'd need. Lots of extra support for mental health and wellbeing and onsite gym at main office. Flexibility is available for some staff (not all).
Svantaggi
There is a lot of push from management to get the junior staff to do a lot while the management tends to not step in until there is an urgent issue and even then it's just to throw some political weight around and there is a blame culture in parts of the organisation. There is a 'if your face fits' culture where some hard workers are overlooked as others have been singled out. There is alway a 'period of change' where the expectation is you will just have to work more hours above your contract to a level above you pay grade as 'it's what needs to be done now'. Processes make work frustrating and time consuming. Not really an organisation anyone wanting to working in a fast paced environment. Extremely backwards with the digital age and collaboration but this is improving. A lot of travelling and wondering around floor plates to find people, no one picks up the phone oracles use of video conferencing. Not a huge deal of ownership, lots of sloped shoulder. So much talk about development but no action to actually train staff appropriately for the roles they are in. Some roles don't even have a formal job description....