Mott MacDonald reviews

- Very poor communication between management, divisions, and colleagues. A colleague told me “here you have to read between the lines”. I had no idea where the company was heading, due to little communication between the senior management and the worker soldiers. - Very poor management, with people management skills completely lacking in my division. - A complete disregard for performance management. Performance reviews delayed by almost three months despite attempts from our side to get meetings with manager set up. Very vague goals and feedback. The delay in performance review is what made me leave. - A disinterested HR. Many administrative mistakes were made when I joined. - Support services are over-stretched, although I have a lot of respect for IT who work with little resources in a huge company. New starts, including at director-level, had to wait days or even weeks for their laptops to arrive and phones to be set-up, and then when they finally arrived log-ins also didn't work. Invoices got lost and took months to find, if at all. - Little training provided. It seems only graduates benefit from structured guidance- the rest work in the cold and woe betide you if you get it wrong, especially when it comes to working out the maze that is the "system". - Very bureaucratic and outdated systems that waste time. What little training on how to use the system exists is very vague and unhelpful. - Promotion is based on tenure and your friendship with your manager and not actual performance. Team-members are not treated equally. An excessive competitive culture exists which is worse when project work dries up. - Poor client relationships (in my division at least), clients refused to pay us, claiming we did not do the work set out in the scope. This was all due to bad project management and happened more than twice. - Several colleagues experienced issues with their expenses taking months before being processed and rebated. Some contractors working in my division were also not being paid for months. Hope this has been resolved. - Pay is below average, just 20 days leave (other competitors in the UK offer 25) and benefits package is nothing special.

-Toxic Culture of bullying- I have literally seen my team lead have a mental break down in the office on a Tuesday. Rest assured the vultures were there to dig their claws in after he left in an ambulance that day. -Having to work excessive hours for no reward or recognition -No consistency in line management so you cant progress ( "i dont know what the last guy promised, but i didnt"- even though its written down in your PDR) -Having to travel 2 hours each way per day on your own time -Training always too late- despite saying you dont have training in something which you need to do, favourite employees get the projects and training opportunities -lies about pay- get qualified and go up a grade/ get more- was delayed by a year. Also, achieve agreed goals in your PDR- cant give you pay rise as agreed as we dont want to. -Mangers will happily stand in your way in terms of qualifications and progression if it suits their agenda. -Abusing of public funds. Government projects were intentionally over enginnered to keep the staff working and fees coming in, rather than delivering value to the tax payer and an optimum solution quickly. This will be in your implied job desciption. - Have been sat in a car with a senior colleague as he told his girlfriend what he was going to do with her that night (im aware of glassdoor community guidelines so wont detail). complain and you are out. -A colleague who was too touchy, and a bully ( but thats just him- find a way to work with him) -one project, where the team leads goal for me was to attend more meetings and get more face time, not one meeting in a whole year. -You can spend 6 years here, get some qualifications and you will be an Assistant to an Assistant Quantity Surveyor, and having to commute 2 hours each way of your own time, and be expected to say thank you. - they wont rewrite job descriptions, even if you move roles/ departments- handy as it means you can be doing low level tasks if it suits them