What is the salary like at Thatcham Research?

Pros

Nice people, Pension contribution scheme, Location of office, Easy Job with minimal work

Cons

Incredibly poor salaries on average 10-20k below where they should be reflected in their HIDDEN salaries of their job listings Salaries are cherry picked for HR and management anyone who is not pursuing that career path do not bother Hush and blame culture No progression Work can be completed on all manager vehicles (resprays, mechanical etc.) but don't waste your time asking to do anything small on your own vehicle. The claimed flexible remote working is seemingly exclusive to HR the expectation is for you to be in 3-4 days per week More layers of management than a Corp Poor management at all levels and communication Hierarchy system which is amplified through their dress down Friday culture exclusive to anyone who doesn't regularly wear uniform Senior management are clueless and overpaid for the lack of output or direction that they provide Nothing to do, mentally taxing pretending to be busy, miserable working pace, as a review stated above it is glacial Benefits just meet the legal requirements, the rest of the benefits are trivial e.g., car scheme Diversity meets quotas, you can count the level of diversity on one hand

Advice to Management

Listen to your employees, communicate information about projects as they come in and the expectations of what should be delivered. Increase your salaries. You cannot claim and keep putting competitive salary in your job listings if you are offering below substantially lower salaries for jobs that require experience. Rework benefits package. Start by understanding what product you want to deliver instead of trying to branch into excessively commercial ventures that Thatcham will never excel in due to Managment not having any idea of what strategy they want to follow. Increase funding where it is needed e.g., in equipment and facilities instead of squandering funding on regularly refreshing office chairs and office screens (equipment's that's a year old). Makes you wonder what stakeholders would think of all the squandered money You over value less critical departments doing nothing for the growth of the business and under value the departments adapting and generating new streams of revenue with the lack of funding they receive. Think about this before you lose some of your best employees My last bit of advice is, do not respond to this review with your generic corporate HR message, I know none of this will be acknowledged past a HR level.

Pros

Nice people, Pension contribution scheme, Location of office, Easy Job with minimal work

Cons

Incredibly poor salaries on average 10-20k below where they should be reflected in their HIDDEN salaries of their job listings Salaries are cherry picked for HR and management anyone who is not pursuing that career path do not bother Hush and blame culture No progression Work can be completed on all manager vehicles (resprays, mechanical etc.) but don't waste your time asking to do anything small on your own vehicle. The claimed flexible remote working is seemingly exclusive to HR the expectation is for you to be in 3-4 days per week More layers of management than a Corp Poor management at all levels and communication Hierarchy system which is amplified through their dress down Friday culture exclusive to anyone who doesn't regularly wear uniform Senior management are clueless and overpaid for the lack of output or direction that they provide Nothing to do, mentally taxing pretending to be busy, miserable working pace, as a review stated above it is glacial Benefits just meet the legal requirements, the rest of the benefits are trivial e.g., car scheme Diversity meets quotas, you can count the level of diversity on one hand

Advice to Management

Listen to your employees, communicate information about projects as they come in and the expectations of what should be delivered. Increase your salaries. You cannot claim and keep putting competitive salary in your job listings if you are offering below substantially lower salaries for jobs that require experience. Rework benefits package. Start by understanding what product you want to deliver instead of trying to branch into excessively commercial ventures that Thatcham will never excel in due to Managment not having any idea of what strategy they want to follow. Increase funding where it is needed e.g., in equipment and facilities instead of squandering funding on regularly refreshing office chairs and office screens (equipment's that's a year old). Makes you wonder what stakeholders would think of all the squandered money You over value less critical departments doing nothing for the growth of the business and under value the departments adapting and generating new streams of revenue with the lack of funding they receive. Think about this before you lose some of your best employees My last bit of advice is, do not respond to this review with your generic corporate HR message, I know none of this will be acknowledged past a HR level.

Pros

Nice people, Pension contribution scheme, Location of office, Easy Job with minimal work

Cons

Incredibly poor salaries on average 10-20k below where they should be reflected in their HIDDEN salaries of their job listings Salaries are cherry picked for HR and management anyone who is not pursuing that career path do not bother Hush and blame culture No progression Work can be completed on all manager vehicles (resprays, mechanical etc.) but don't waste your time asking to do anything small on your own vehicle. The claimed flexible remote working is seemingly exclusive to HR the expectation is for you to be in 3-4 days per week More layers of management than a Corp Poor management at all levels and communication Hierarchy system which is amplified through their dress down Friday culture exclusive to anyone who doesn't regularly wear uniform Senior management are clueless and overpaid for the lack of output or direction that they provide Nothing to do, mentally taxing pretending to be busy, miserable working pace, as a review stated above it is glacial Benefits just meet the legal requirements, the rest of the benefits are trivial e.g., car scheme Diversity meets quotas, you can count the level of diversity on one hand

Advice to Management

Listen to your employees, communicate information about projects as they come in and the expectations of what should be delivered. Increase your salaries. You cannot claim and keep putting competitive salary in your job listings if you are offering below substantially lower salaries for jobs that require experience. Rework benefits package. Start by understanding what product you want to deliver instead of trying to branch into excessively commercial ventures that Thatcham will never excel in due to Managment not having any idea of what strategy they want to follow. Increase funding where it is needed e.g., in equipment and facilities instead of squandering funding on regularly refreshing office chairs and office screens (equipment's that's a year old). Makes you wonder what stakeholders would think of all the squandered money You over value less critical departments doing nothing for the growth of the business and under value the departments adapting and generating new streams of revenue with the lack of funding they receive. Think about this before you lose some of your best employees My last bit of advice is, do not respond to this review with your generic corporate HR message, I know none of this will be acknowledged past a HR level.