London Computer Systems reviews about "flexible"

A hybrid schedule is offered, but there is still limited flexibility. Can sometimes take a long time to move up within the company.

Product support is hard and for me was too draining. Product is huge and you’re somewhat thrown into support despite their best efforts to give a broad training . Product support is being tied to a phone all day.

Not really a con since I am not experienced enough yet,.. but I just hope their pay increases match what is being offered in the open market as I progress in experience, I would stay here for life as long as I am not missing out on any financial opportunities that would help make my life more secure.

Benefits and pay are just alright, certainly could be better. Effective manager communication does not seem to be guaranteed across all the different departments.

More flexibility to work from home 5 days a week would be nice.

LCS values workplace "culture" a lot which is good, however in recent years the workplace culture seems to be more of a requirement for employees than an option. Hybrid schedule used to be two days in the office a week rotating (half monday tuesday, half wednesday thursday, all hybrid workers off on fridays), but was recently updated to also requiring hybrid workers to come in every other friday. This in itself isn't too terrible, but it does leave worry that they are preparing us to all come in 5 days a week again with no hybrid option if a second building is built to house everyone, despite bragging about the "flexibility they offer" with the hybrid schedule in promotional material. Additionally, the company very much preaches that it values employees and doesn't want to overwork them, but some departments are failing to put this into practice and ignoring employee concerns about impossible deadlines. There is concern that the employee-satisfaction priority at LCS is slowly being overridden by "business needs". Also, we're falling into the AI-generation fad which, while AI can certainly be a useful tool, one of our new AI letter writing tools was introduced in a way that basically said "It will write a letter with all California legal requirements included for you and you don't even have to read it over or edit it" which I cannot even begin to express what a dangerous claim that is.

- poor processes, with little to no documentation on how things work - no one willing to set hard fast rules that are industry standard for tech/software - legacy code with a mountain of tech debt and no sense of urgency to clean it up. This is a key reason why collaboration is halted across departments and deadlines are barely met, as a tough look at the codebase along with changes would create much more efficiency/better product output - do not expect to get paid fair or well here as noted in many other reviews, this is a place to get some YOE & move on - 0 transparency for pay bands or paths to promotion - enterprise software that doesn’t want to pay for internal enterprise tooling. Manually digging up metrics, stretching low tier plans to their limit, no way to see how projects you’ve worked months on have turned out etc - meeting rooms with the cheapest mice/keyboards money can buy - C-suite has openly stated how much hybrid causes ‘scheduling issues’, if another building is purchased expect to RTO or only have the option to WFH on Fridays (if that!) despite our consistent double digit growth

They don't provide work laptops- not even during the worst of the pandemic when employees had no choice but to stay home. They only give the bare minimum required by the federal government when it comes to maternity leave (3 months completely unpaid). Only 2 weeks PTO and no designated sick days unless you qualify for long term sick leave (?!). No option for fully remote work. The hybrid work policy feels like babysitting - employees who opt for partial work from home still have to come in two days per week, no flexibility on which days. Annual reviews are not conducted in a timely manner.

When I left there was no guaranteed remote work, you still had to come into the office on specific days. This an incredibly minor con however!