AB Dynamics Reviews

3.1

39% would recommend to a friend

(48 total reviews)
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James Routh

29% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

AB Dynamics has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 48 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AB Dynamics employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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48 reviews
1.0
2 Nov 2020
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Pros

The old staff and management team. Was a fantastic place to work prior new CEO and senior management team who are all soulless brutes with no repeat for any staff below management level. Nice offices

Cons

CEO is ruining a first class company. Taken on a role that is too much for him and he has no hesitation to bin off anyone he purely doesn’t like. Irrelevant of their experience or prior success. More interested in lining his own pocket and destroying a great company. These very recent reviews are clearly fictitious to compensate the bad. Trust me. It’s am terrible place to work with low morale and staff are scared all the time. James Routh (CEO) is a vicious heartless man and so are his management team. Don’t work there if you have any self respect!

1.0
25 Mar 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting products, specifically the simulation tools.

Cons

Once a highly respected place to work. Now a sorry excuse for a company who treat staff as commodities that they can buy and sell as they please. Very fearful office environment. Stay clear!!!

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AB Dynamics Response
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Thank you for your review, it's great that you find the products interesting, the simulation market is growing rapidly with huge potential for further growth, so I'm pleased you find this area of particular interest. Restructures happen when a company grows to the extent, we have over the last 3 - 5 years. We have grown from 1 company based in the UK to 5 companies internationally as well as moving from a Ltd company to a PLC. Whilst there are many positives that come from these changes, unfortunately the organisation structures that once worked successfully can't always support such changes. The positive from this is it has allowed us to open many more opportunities for both internal and external people and the effect of these changes on existing staff has been extremely minimal. It does concern me that you find the office environment fearful, please reach out to me directly and confidentially so I can help with this kathryn.downie@abdynamics.com (Talent Acquisition Manager)
1.0
25 Dec 2020
Recommend
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Pros

None left really. Used to be only pros.

Cons

Management not understanding product Management having little technical knowledge Management following Chris croft training courses to the letter Management not recognising or caring about staff morale Forced redundancies for positions that are still necessary. To sum this up get this: the HR departments target to meet their bonus was to increase staff turnover. In a company that's grown from a handful of people in less than a decade all this achieves is losing incredibly valuable skillset. Customer satisfaction has fallen dramatically and mistakes were evident multiple times daily. Most of the people making decisions in this company think their own thoughts are gospel and have no capacity for working with people. Common sense is scarce as all the people with any are jumping ship. The products this company make were truly amazing and there are some wonderful minds here but I fear the skillset or service offered will never be what it was now. Internal hiring without advertising vacancies or without interviews. Everything else. People are unable to use a £5k tap which dispenses hot water properly and keep breaking it. This gets replaced every time but people on 4 times that as their salary get made redundant. This company has used covid as an excuse for redundancies, they never even shut down in March.

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