Tribal Group Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Tribal Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – Helpful and friendly people (mostly anyway)
Global contracts with high potential
Flexible working hours
Attempting some agile methods
Office newly refurbed
Free tea and coffee

Cons – Software is dated
Although there are a few good developers, innovation is stifled by those in charge.
Very much a software hacking company with few industry standard patterns or methods used. It's all about bolting on some new half baked features and shoving it out the door.
Lip service is as much attention as testing is given.
Senior devs fear change due to their lack of knowledge and experience outside of tribal.
They need to drag themselves into this decade and put more focus around quality.
Management are very inexperienced and run around like headless chickens (literally)
Much more agile methods are needed around the software development if they are to sell themselves as "agile", it's more than just two week iterations and a daily stand up.

Advice to Senior Management – Encourage new ideas, there are developers with good experience on the floor.
Learn more about the software development cycle.
Place more emphasis on quality and a little less on new half cooked features.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Tribal Group part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great colleagues, great products, strong reputation and brand which gets you through the door of clients'.

Cons – Struggled to capitalize on all intellectual capital of the companies it bought or to leverage off the range of different relationships. Less of a tribe more of a collection of many tribes. Left its value base behind..

Current Employee – been working at Tribal Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Management are excellent, they trust employees and give a lot of support when needed.
- Colleagues are also very nice, a good and postive atmosphere overall
- Flexitime
- Can work from home
- Overtime available if wanted
- Agile implemented properly (mostly)
- 9/12 on the Joel test

Cons – - Some very mediocre employees
- Code base isn't as nice as it should be
- Unit tests exist, but writing them is always harder than it should be
- A little bit too much bureaucracy for an agile company
- Stories aren't always as well defined as one would like
- A promise of lots of on the job training has not been fulfilled

Advice to Senior Management – Improve the quality of the developers, either through more training or better hiring practices.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Tribal Group

Pros – Colleagues were welcoming, supportive and always willing to give advice to projects, even if not personally invovled.

Cons – Unfortunately the Company has gone through many changes over the past few years, leading to dissatisfaction, unease and unrest amongst employees. Communication from the top down was poor, suggestive of a sentiment that the employees were merely commodities to be traded for the best possible share yield.

Advice to Senior Management – Decide on your plan and stick to it; don't keep changing the goalposts for people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Tribal Group

Pros – - Reputable public sector consultants
- Opportunity to forge own career
- Breadth of experience
- Distinctive in that there is a blend of young bright graduates and those with industry experience

Cons – - Unclear progression within new structure
- Low morale in current climate
- Experience depends on quality of team
- Many legacy businesses being brought together causes friction

Advice to Senior Management – - Clearer comms about important changes
- Create more unified culture

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Tribal Group

Pros – Work colleagues are good, management is poor, team spirit is good at times

Cons – Board do not undestand the software development life cycle and never let you return to 'finish off' an application

Advice to Senior Management – Talk to the chalk face workers, come down out of your ivory towers, open your eyes, stop taking bonuses earned by the chalk face workers, adn reduce some of your ridiculous salaries

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Tribal Group

Pros – In a nutshell I'd say the best reasons are diversity and scale of opportunities available to even fairly junior staff. Also fast growing company, rapidly gaining market share in a number of different vertical sectors. Also work primarily with the public sector, so there is a social benefit to most of their projects. Its size can be considered in some respects to be an advantage, clients percieve us as helpful and dedicated and non-arrogant, which is a real differentiator from some of the other players, like Accenture and Mckinsey.

Cons – Still fairly small, lacks scale compared to some of the sector giants Mckinsey e.t.c

Advice to Senior Management – Communicate more, and do speak to consultants in management speak, they find it insulting because it's the same stuff they spout when trying to distract clients.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Tribal Group

Pros – There are opportunities to work in different areas of the UK and abroad- not that I have looked into it. Large organisation with different areas of expertise. People come from a variety of backgrounds. Within the organisation there are different sectors that you can work in.

Cons – Not that much integration between departments. Not always kept in the loop. Management could handle employees in a better manner, giving feedback throughout projects and manage issues in a better manner.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep employees up to date with what is going on in the company.

Former Employee – worked at Tribal Group

Pros – The company has a good reputation delivering a range of comprehensive services across to aa wide variety of clients within the public sector and this incluses health, education, local authorities, local government. The skill and knowledge within the organisation is excellent and they have very prestigious client list. There is almost an unprecidented range of servcies incuding architechts, IT consultants, housing and regeneration specialists, HR and recruitment, advertising. This when pitching to new clients was extremely powerful that the company had grown through acquisition and could provide almost a one stop shop to deliver this breadth of diffferent services. Also has the advantage of being abel to provide excellent geographical support to their clients.

Cons – The downsides to working for the Tribal Group are primiarily the lack of cross working between the different parts of the organisation, this is poorly manged from the top and within each operating untit within tribal, this is partly based on the company having grown through acquistion suffers from sub cultures and silo working and I beleive a hughe amount of opportunutes are not utised to truly deliver 'big ticket' sales and maximise account development within the organisaiton, There is also a lack of management strcure and performance management compounted vy poor HR support and inadquate communiations strategies within the operating divisions.

Advice to Senior Management – Analyse the potential of the benefits of working more cohesively and joint opportuities across the group.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Tribal Group

Pros – Committed colleagues and Interesting work

Cons – Too much change - not enough time for embedding in,

Advice to Senior Management – Start to value your employees