Toxic culture drives tenured employees away, re-consider joining this place
Pros
Excellent colleagues, particularly the junior teams (A/Cs)
Cons
No benefits outside the bare minimum (i.e, 7 sicks day, after which you get put on statutory leave). 5-10 colleagues in the London office have had to take sick leave due to serious health ailments driven by the working culture in the office. These issues have been raised and ignored, showing how little they care about employee wellbeing. Additional benefits (i.e., gym, wellbeing) are non-existent. Staffing model which is not appropriate for 500+ colleagues. Every employee is set up for failure (e.g. external experienced hires, phds, interns) staffing model makes little sense for a company of this scale. Staffing London colleagues across timezones (e.g., San Fransisco, India, East Coast), almost every colleague in the London office is not staffed together, it makes no sense as the hours are shifted significantly, US PLs and LT are not sympathetic and their toxic working culture becomes a weight UK colleagues have to deal with. Non-existent scoping and staffing of projects, the vast majority of projects are sold as cash-grabs for LT, with managers and junior teams taking the responsibility of the poor scoping and sustained burn. Teams are consistently working past midnight and this culture is normalized. Hiring of a CPO who destroyed the limited tracking we have into sustainability and employee wellbeing, moved strongly away from mental health considerations and other initiatives that were barely functioning in the first place. Some strategically gifted individual decided to dock most the company 10-20% of their annual bonus due to delayed 'end of project feedback'. This did wonders for morale as you can imagine, alongside docking people who were not even at fault, with no pre-communication of specific timelines. As a result, i have left the organization to join a competitor. These issues have now been raised to deaf ears and pure ignorance over the past 4 years. I worry we are close to an incident where a colleague may seriously become hospitalized given the culture that has been built in the office.
