William Hamilton

Horrible Place to Work Highly political company. Micromanagement and favoritism. There is no single rule for everyone here, all the options change depends on your manager, team and how well you play here. I have been under horrible managers who never care about you. HR asks for feedback, but nothing changes here. HR blames the managers and vice versa while coming to promotions, you have to play victim role. They keep change something constantly, started first with four pillars, once they were collapsed immediately moved to LIT 2.0, then HPE. Not sure which trend they are following now. Too much show off about everything, paid articles on social media. They spend too much money on promoting this sinking ship. All the buzzwords they use is absolute nonsense like it?s a silicon valley. Heard some of them are: WIGs, KCCR, BAMs, what a load of rubbish. You are just a below average IT wing as part of an insurance company. See the amount of negative reviews here, loads of talented people left this horrible company. I seriously doubt the five star reviews here as they don?t make any sense. I know they have asked to write few positive reviews in the past while I was working. The funniest part here is people write blogs about everything starting from ?how to turn off your computer? to ?how write another blog?. I also have seen people who don?t code and write blogs to tell others ?how you actually code? and taking credit for others? work. That?s their job and they get promote to principals and Technologists. People who actually deliver stuff stay as software engineers for years and some of them stay in fear of opening the mouth. If you question them, then you be will blacklisted and you?re done here. This company is only for few people who can play politics or if you have your own group in the company. There are still a lot of talented developers who can?t move out of the company, probably planning to retire here. I sincerely feel sorry for them. No respect for the employees. As mentioned in few of the reviews you will be constantly told how to think like you are a school kid. Very bad managers, you can clearly see favoritism everywhere in this company. Only few people get into shiny projects, get highly projected everywhere like they only invented everything. They only keep getting awards and promotions. Rest just settle with legacy code, fighting for promotions. After sometime you feel you?re as worthless. There are alot of serious problems in this company. I couldn?t sustain here anymore so had to leave and trust me the feeling of relaxation when I was out, like I was walking out of a jail. And I have seen alot of difference at my current workplace where you don't have to dealt with all these kind of nonsense and you are truly valued. The main focus here is just on ?Great place to work? survey which is again a big joke, loads of meetings to discuss that crap. They keep pester you to write good reviews and track down if you write something negative. The pay is less again, very least in Belfast market, oh and the pay rise.. it's another great thing to discuss, just a couple of hundred pounds that too if you?re lucky. WHAT A GREAT PLACE TO WORK