Ok experience - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij BridgeU
3,0
24 mrt 2024
Anonieme werknemer
Voormalige werknemer
Aanbevelen
Goedkeuring directeur
Zakelijk vooruitzicht
Pluspunten
Great colleagues who I continue to maintain friendships with.
Laid-back atmosphere
Minpunten
Very slow pace of work at times, meaning little of note gets done
Overly optimistic visions from SLT during all hands/monthly meeting
Advancement in your path appears to be based on experience and not actual competence
Mediocre benefits
Reactie van BridgeU
1y
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. I’d like to address some of these points.
I’m sorry to read that you only had an ‘OK experience’ rather than a great one. The company has been through some change over the last few months, but ensuring we have a great place to work remains a top priority for me as the new CEO. We’ve just finished running an employee survey to listen to our team’s views on any areas we may need to focus on in order to achieve this.
I’m surprised by your comment about advancement, as we value internal growth and promotions. 24% of our team members were promoted into their current position and we manage a twice-yearly promotion cycle, so colleagues have ample opportunities to work towards and to be considered for promotions if put forward by their managers.
Rest assured, we regularly review customer input and strive to make meaningful improvements to our platform based on their concerns. We recognise the dedication of our Customer Success team and are committed to providing them with the support they need.
If you have any further comments or questions, you’re welcome to get in touch directly.
Patrick Whitfield
CEO
During my time at BridgeU I have seen:
- Most senior technical staff leave, averaging 1 per month.
- Leadership U-turns are a regular occurrence.
- A team sore from redundancies only to be met with more redundancies the next year.
- A legacy application where trying to make any kind of change feels like herding cats.
- An acquisition where most of what remained of the tech team was laid off despite reassurances that there would be long term engineering effort in the UK.
On the acquisition... upon announcement we were informed that a strategic review was underway. This is code for "We're making redundancies". Our first meeting with the new CEO was a spectacle where he bragged about his business acumen. Shared how he had declined to buy a Ferrari so he could buy BU and complained that most of his new minions had their cameras off. Additionally, the current CEO spent 5 minutes sucking up to his new boss about how great the acquisition process was, especially since the new boss had just had a baby.
Those of us who were worried about feeding our own children didn't appreciate it.
Due to the political situation in the US and the recent announcements regarding immigration in the UK, this business probably has a limited lifespan.
To my former colleagues in all areas of the business, get out as soon as you can.
Amazing culture, considerate, inclusive, kind, everything I thought didn't exist anymore in the corporate world.
Minpunten
Just a bad product with a lack of innovation due to limited funds I believe. I think the company was actually bought out after I left as it was really struggling. A shame as such brilliant people within the team.