SG Digital reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(166 total reviews)
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Jordan Levin

66% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

SG Digital has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 166 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SG Digital employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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166 reviews
3.0
Jul 16, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Nice, supportive environment (depending on the sub-team you join). Decent starting wage. Good for career starters, since it's a safe environment to establish yourself professionally. Maybe it's also good for very senior professionals that expect to start with a high salary and not get any raises. Normally, you end up with good managers that don't micromanage (there can be exceptions). They are very typical about 8h workday, and they pay overtimes. Team dinners can be a fun experience, you may get to eat somewhere fancy.

Cons

Obsolete technology that is not used anywhere else. You are not really progressing in your career path. You won't get any raises if it's not January. In January, the company will voluntarily give you 2-4% raise regardless of your performance (however, they claim that it is based on performance). The intention behind the voluntary raise is that they don't negotiate with you. Generally, they will try to find ways to squeeze work out of you without compensating you fairly (e.g. increasing your responsibility/work load/work output without giving fitting raises). Flexible schedule merely means that you can choose to start working at a specific time (8, 8.30, 9, 9.30, 10, 10.30 or 11), but you will have to stick with it. If you join a team that has early or late meetings that you are required to attend, you have no choice but to choose one of the schedules that suit your team.

1.0
Jun 6, 2019

Don't Believe The Shills

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Chiswick Park is a lovely place to work. Shops are close by, the lake is lovely, and Chiswick itself a short walk away. Most of the people who work here are nice. Work/life balance is OK.

Cons

Management is a disaster. People are disillusioned have lost all sense of where the company is going. Major projects have either been just horribly executed or terminated without warning. We are haemorrhaging staff to a shocking degree, those that aren't quitting are being made redundant. It's like GoT around here, wondering who will be gone when you turn up on Monday. Entire offices are being shuttered. I wouldn't be surprised if the Chiswick office was gone in a year. Most of the talent has already left and any new starters are slowly becoming aware of what they've walked into. There is no training. There may be a budget, but we never see it. Staff development is non-existent. There is no career path. Very few people actually get promoted. The technology base is cripplingly old and security a joke. You will not be challenged. Management from the parent company are imposing nonsensical policies that do not help, forcing everyone to follow a 'lowest common denominator' approach, even if it harms development and security. Pay is low. It always was, but twice being bought has been used as an excuse to put 18months between pay reviews.

2.0
Feb 2, 2020
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Pros

It is a good start for entry level engineers to gain experience working in a company. Freebie fridays Work From Home Nice Office

Cons

Obsolate tech stack Slow processes Not enough room for career progress No salary raise Toxic relationship with customers Not so engineering oriented company, non technical managers getting involved to development.

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