Technical staff are not respected - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Smoothwall

1,0
16 gen 2018
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Hard to think of any. If you're good at being loud and outspoken (factual optional) and office politics they you will go far. But only until you're not flavour of the month.

Svantaggi

It's a technical company run by a board that has no one technical on it. This means they have no understanding or respect for technology or hold any value for technical staff. Absolutely no one has any respect or trust for the latest CEO Mr Marks.

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Risposta di Smoothwall
8y
Thanks for taking the time to leave a review. I'm sorry that your experience of working at Smoothwall wasn't what we would have hoped for our employees. We have been and will continue to work hard to make Smoothwall a great place to work. It is unfortunate that you feel our technical staff are under appreciated. We have great respect for our technical staff and I am pleased to say that we have recently appointed an experienced and forward thinking CTO to the Board of Directors. We wish you all the best for the future.

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5,0
6 apr 2021
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Great environment, people are good

Svantaggi

Work life balance is not very good

1,0
30 dic 2018
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Used to be a good company to work for...not since it changed ownership.

Svantaggi

New Management does not care about the toxic environment in the US. Their expectations are extremely unrealistic and the new CEO is clueless.

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Risposta di Smoothwall
7y
Thank you for leaving your thoughts on here, though I am sorry to read how you feel. I'm afraid I don't recognise your description of the US office. It is important to very clearly and strongly refute the suggestion that anyone would be punished for highlighting problems, in fact the opposite is true. “Problems are good” is my constant refrain as we seek to uncover and improve wherever we can. To support a critical and honest continuous self-review & self-improvement at our company, we have put multiple systems in place to enable feedback including anonymous feedback routes, anonymous employee engagement surveys, as well as HR and other channels outside of management. For the record, only two people in the US have been “fired” (as you put it) throughout 2018, and both were straightforward (and clear-cut) performance issues. We are deeply committed to ensuring our US operations are a great success and as such we are investing significant engineering time and effort into US product, we have improved many aspects of US staff benefits, increased the entertainment budget, increased the training budget, and are planning a renovation of the US office. If, on reflection, you still feel that specific points need to be addressed, I would strongly encourage you to avail yourself of any of the anonymous feedback tools to provide specific advice on specific points and I will personally review it all – as I always do.
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