Oh boy, we're about to have some fun here, going to break the 4th wall a bit.
- Benefits: Lol. What are those?
- Vision: The vision of the company is very dense, with their slogan being 'Positively Productive' - Which sounds like an odd innuendo could be made out of that - Let me however stay on task here.
You will forever be myth'd by what the company's goals are, where they're moving or even how the company is progressing with meeting objectives. There's really a lot of disconnect from the top to the bottom i.e. It seems 98% with the client and 2% spent with the company you're employed to.
- Productivity: Most of the productivity of the company comes from the workforce and a handful of regional and service delivery managers (shout out to PMO too!). The vibe above those listed manager types can always be transposed to the workforce (and possibly even regional/SDM managers) as something very negative, never so much emphasizing how hard they're working or how far their contributions are taking and helping the company. Although there is a bonus scheme, it still seems to compensate very little for how much they contribute to any success Astreya makes. Working in different roles through the company, the morale of the workers throughout the years always seemed shockingly very low.
- Career progression: If you're hoping for years and years worth of career progression through Astreya, I personally feel it's a big waste of time. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad gig if you have no degree, you're fresh out of college, you were flipping burgers for £3.99 an hour and you want to be given a chance, but if you have a ton of experience/skills, technical expertise and knowledge under your belt, you will definitely either be under-utilized, under-paid and definitely unrewarded. There have been increasing opportunities in the last few years to progress from being a workforce support technician and progressing onto something a little more demanding, but the size and level of the advancements are very small and not very substantial, and actually hinders your progression because you end up blindsided and misguided of knowing what your actual value and worth is or what contribution and progression you're making in your professional career. Astreya needs to get better with diagramming out and presenting true career paths for individuals and guiding them more effectively through their young I.T careers.
- Creative activity: Furthering from the career progression point, there's really not a lot of opportunity to make use of your own skills and teachings. You're assigned to a core job and you're to only do that job that fits within that job spec, so that leaves minimal room to showcase anything to allow you to progress further. Opportunities are very scarce, it's very dependent on a previous employee leaving to make an open space to fill - And even those roles follow a practice of cronyism - You're also very rarely told these roles have become available either. There's a mixed range of diverse skilled individuals who can contribute so much through training each other different skills and practices - Such skills that are either critical with knowing or skills to boost one's resume/CV. As a result of staff feeling under-utilized and such, staff either leave or grow slightly stale within their current roles, often experiencing little to no progression.
However, Astreya does offer a great source of training material, along with expense certifications, but so much cost/time could be saved through making use of skilled individuals to effectively teach one another new tricks.
- Really, who is writing these fake 5 star reviews? It's very transparent lol
Just to finish this off, guys, let's push for 3 thumbs up on this.
