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
1.0
Sep 13, 2019
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

- Good to pick up some skills to get another job where you are actually valued as a productive employee. - Great work/life balance. - Remote work in a lot of teams. Some employees are 100% remote. You can easily work <7 hours a day and get away with it.

Cons

- Lot of wasted time and efforts. Projects are quickly approved with vague promises of future revenue... When they don't seem to deliver, they get quickly scrapped. - Even inside a project, priorities are never agreed on and change constantly. Requirements come from a high level above you with no visibility who made what decisions. - Small teams act isolated from each other. Inter-team projects are catastrophic because nobody is used to cooperate with other teams. No sense of "we're in this boat together" - 90% Contractors in almost all the teams. Some are great, some do the bare minimum to not lose their jobs. Very easy to do and get comfortable, that's why contractors hang around for years. - No initiative due to very little bonus - A lot of Politics, friendship culture, gossiping and keeping employees in the dark

1.0
Sep 2, 2019

A start up gone wrong

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people, talented staff, great location Unlimited funds from Centrica - for the first few years

Cons

Decisions are made by SLT who are out of touch, act out of defense and are horrified of taking any accountability. They also don't communicate with their own teams. These deliverables are agreed upon without proper input from teams who actually execute delivery which causes disenchantment with the company en masse across ALL teams.

1.0
Aug 25, 2019

Bad hierarchy

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great location - right in the centre of London!

Cons

Hive is a company on the verge of failure. The panic as it spirals into bankruptcy have caused people to turn on each other. I've never worked at a company where the hierarchy between levels has been so evident. The people lower down the chain get absolutely no say over strategy, the CEO has to sign off every single small decision made, despite the fact she has no view over data, performance, test results or technological performance. Would not recommend this company!

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