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"Work life balance is unmatched especially in tech" (in 55 reviews)
"it is a good working environment" (in 41 reviews)
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"Pay could be better, but work-life balance is generally good" (in 14 reviews)
"Can be a bit hierarchical and career progression is a bit of a red herring" (in 26 reviews)
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"Privileged to work here"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at BBC full-time (More than a year)
Pros
As a relatively new and junior member of staff who joined straight from school, I feel very privileged to be working in such a friendly, supportive and welcoming workplace.
The work I've done has been challenging, rewarding and immensely interesting and varied. I look forward to arriving there in the morning ahead of a busy day, and I regularly find myself out of the office on assignments.
I would highly recommend a role at the BBC to anyone.Cons
Honestly, I'm struggling to think of any.
BBC 2019-01-05 09:39 PST![BBC Logo]()
"Publicist"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at BBC full-time
Pros
BBC and the content programming
Cons
BBC is a large organisation
BBC 2019-03-21 01:15 PDT![BBC Logo]()
"BBC"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at BBC full-time
Pros
Good work-life balance. Good working culture.
Cons
None that I can think of - not the best salaries perhaps, but there are other benefits to compensate for this.
Advice to Management
None
BBC 2019-03-19 06:38 PDT![BBC Logo]()
"Work life balance is great"
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Pros
Work life balance is great
Cons
None I can think of.
BBC 2019-03-18 04:40 PDT![BBC Logo]()
"SRE"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at BBC full-time
Pros
good company to work for
Cons
lots of different teams difficult to work together
BBC 2019-03-18 05:33 PDTHelpful (1)
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"BBC employee"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookI have been working at BBC full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Flexible Working.
Lovely offices.
Ability to move around different teams.Cons
The pay as a whole is less than the rest of the industry.
Congestion around MediaCity.BBC 2019-03-13 03:37 PDT![BBC Logo]()
"working for the BBC"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at BBC part-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
It's very interesting as large cooperation. You do have lots of internal opportunities
Cons
They do not like to issue proper full-time contracts which can leave you vulnerable even after years of rolling through one fixed term contract after another
Advice to Management
Attempt to really find the best skills of your staff and help them build on their own best practice.
BBC 2019-03-02 03:37 PST![BBC Logo]()
"A great company but can be frustrating"
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I have been working at BBC full-time
Pros
I work with a really talented team in BBC Childrens. We support each other 100% and they are friends, not just colleagues. Management is mostly great in my team and I know I can go to them with any problem. We are always encouraged to be creative and try new things; nothing is ever laughed at or too silly.
Cons
Higher level management is problematic with nepotism and certain people being out of theie depth. IT is a joke with systems not working and equipment breaking regularly. The BBC as a whole is so big with so many policies and red tape in place that there are meetings about meetings and, as a result, it can take forever for us to do something new. By the time we're on trend, that trend died 8 months ago.
Advice to Management
Listen to people below you. You don't know everything. And SR, stop hiring your friends.
BBC 2019-03-02 08:13 PST![BBC Logo]()
"Excellent on the whole"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at BBC full-time
Pros
Lots of internal opportunities and exciting place to work
Cons
Bureaucratic, can be frustrating
Advice to Management
Too many departments doing the same job, consolidate
BBC 2019-02-28 01:38 PSTHelpful (1)
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"Junior Software Engineer at the BBC"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at BBC full-time (More than a year)
Pros
- Any cynicism you might have aside, the company and most colleagues really care about the mission and being a force for good. While the results may vary, the effort seems to really be there.
- Work Life balance is excellent in all the teams I've worked in/got to know, and most people I've meet seems content. The only rare days I left late was due to me being engrossed by a piece of work, and never due to a looming deadline.
- There are a lot of initiative on environment preservation, well being and about underrepresented group, and on trying to make the right thing.
- Benefits like pension and medical are good, but don't expect many standard tech companies 'freeebies'. (we're a public company after all, can't splurge that taxpayer money on anything but the most basic instant coffee!)
- The company is trying hard to improve its work methods by pushing agile and modern development techniques/stacks.
- Canteen in Salford might not be the cheapest but I'll forever miss those Pork Burritos.
All in all, it a positive experience where I learned a lot and met people I loved to work with every day. Would probably have stayed longer if progression was faster and extra effort rewarded, and if the team were given more freedom in the tech choicesCons
- Progression and pay: Last year all progression and pay reviews for Design+Engineering were frozen, with various (empty) promises of something better coming alongside "soon". This, alongside salary band that are nothing to write home about, means that you have to negotiate yourself a good Salary when you join because it won't change by much for a long time. While your colleague might recognise and cherish your hard work and achievements, that won't speed up the pace of your career.
- A lot of internal, baroque tooling and framework being used, leading to very poor engineer experience and lot of extremely domain-specific knowledge and expertise which makes it hard to on-board new people, and has little value outside the BBC.
- Red tape. Red tape everywhere: Too many 'heads of something', 'senior manager of something else'. Company tree is not that deep, but sure has lots of branches and lots of Stakeholder to approve your work.
- The culture still feels very TV (and Radio, maybe) first, with Digital just being that "also there" thing.
- Very little/no giving back to open source :(Advice to Management
- Stop changing course every 6 months with big top-down announcements, they are not helping.
- Instead of anointing a internal framework and force everyone to work on it, let team innovate and pick the best tool for the job. Stop building a BBC version of everything with understaffed teams, and use the open source solutions on the market.
- Try your best to tear down the silos (more internal knowledge share, conferences, hackatons, collaborations...) and foster excellence! If you do, more cross-team solution will be adopted naturally.
- Be more transparent about the feedback you ask for and receive. If people are complaining about compensation, don't sweet it under the carpet.
- Our achievements are not only about the number of TV award we receive. Treat Digital like a first class citizen, or risk falling into oblivion.
- Stop priding yourself in doing 'more with less'. Focus on quality and excellence instead, 10 good things are better than 100 half-assed ones!BBC 2019-03-12 15:29 PDT
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