Hive reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(79 total reviews)

37% positive business outlook

Hive has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 79 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hive employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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79 reviews
4.0
Jun 6, 2019
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Pros

The people are friendly. Central London offices are nice with free fruit as perks. I am lucky enough to work with a talented team. Truly the nicest place I have ever worked. You can work from home a few days a week if your manager and team do the same but it does vary wildly between teams.

Cons

Big cost savings from parent company Centrica means that there are periodic redundancies of hard working people and outsourcing to Eastern Europe just to save money. This is eroding trust and there isn’t a feeling we will get sold off at any point. This isn’t great when you are trying to build a business. Lots of contractors getting paid big big bucks compared to permenant staff - simply a reflection of the market but not great knowing how much your colleagues earn compared to you!

1.0
May 15, 2019

Shocking Directors, Shocking MD, Shocking Approach

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people - full of young and talented people who are passionate about customers and making people's lives better. Fantastic social scene.

Cons

The management block innovation. The companies focus is on spreadsheets, numbers and share price. No focus what so ever on customers. Hive create product's and try to sell them to customers instead of actually creating product's customers want. Even the management don't agree with the products but everyone is scared of the MD. This is a great place to work if you want to develop rubbish product's that customers don't really use. No career opportunities, not that i would encourage anyone to progress within this company.

2.0
Apr 26, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Mostly great people. Free lunch once a month

Cons

SLT have completely lost touch with customers. Whilst they focus on profit and cost-cutting, the stability of products and services, reputation of the brand and customer satisfaction are suffering. Staff are stretched to their limits with little or no recognition for their efforts or achievements. The company has grown well beyond a start-up, yet continues to operate in a disjointed and haphazard fashion which is stressful for everyone. I had the constant feeling that at any moment it could all come crashing down.

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