Transdev reviews about "work environment"

- Far lower salary than anyone else in the transport sector who performs our role (being expected to fulfil the role of incident commander) - Very hard to get leave approved. Last year, it took six months and much prompting before leave was approved, this year so far, over a month and a half and still counting, despite several reminders to my line manager - Bad contracts with clauses that more or less mean you can be used to fill in for any other department at any time, leaving you without the opportunity to focus full time on the core principles of your role - Management unwilling to hear grievances or suggestions - Very hard to get equipment or adequate training for your role. Most of the time, it is self-learned with no opportunity for formal, nationally recognised qualifications - Never an adequate level of staff, seemingly widespread issues with staff retention in multiple areas due to all-round poor morale in the frontline workforce, mostly due to poor rostering and management unwilling to work with staff to work on improving rostering situation - All-round toxic work environment which has fostered a management vs. workforce culture

Lot of shift work everyday

After you pass the initial training, the first year or more can be lonely with a majority of single-driver assignments. When you have passengers, you have to turn off your speaker, and the passenger might not talk to you (because it is a simulated driverless experience), so that’s worse than Uber driving where you can initiate conversations if your passengers want to chat and you have more ability to play music, etc. The entry Autonomous Specialist role has a high turnover rate. While it is easy to get hired it is also very easy be exited for policy violations such as touching a mobile device when the car is not in park. There's also a merit point system so if you do get penalty points, you won't get the pay bumps and won't get interviews for promotions. Not so easy to get the points back either, slowing your career path. There are multiple shifts running 24/7 and when you're first hired, you might end up in a shift that conflicts with your normal sleeping hours. There is no clear path for being hired into a "white badge" (direct employee) position at Waymo or Google, it has happened to some employees of Google's vendors, but it is not a common thing.

Most upper management and a few middle managers are indifferent to employees, some supervisors, and some middle managers under their authority (especially those within the Operations Department). Upper management have very little respect for colleagues, and encourage a divisional, antagonistic work environment. Going above and beyond is not appreciated unless publicity is involved. The company has a high turnover rate, which is caused by the toxic work environment (rather than the COVID 19 pandemic).

Sometimes different sections of the company have confusing policies from each other, or dont know whats happening from each other.

work environment is toxic at best

Schedules are not as flexible

Pay is not that great, but work load is heavy.