BSI Group Reviews

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Training is not always easy to obtain
Tendency to recruit many contractors instead of permanent
A lot of redundancies are made

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IT isn't great and the support is limited with a long turnaorund.

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Going Through lots of change at the moment

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Well where do i start??
If you have read any previous reviews about this then you're probably in the loop already.
Disgustingly below average salary for the type of job we do. The salary advertised is not what you actually get and still far and away below industry standard, and the constant lie we keep being fed about "we're going to be doing a pay review" just isn't cutting it I'm afraid.
"Test engineer" job title is not what i would call it, yes there is a big element of being a test engineer but more accurately we are project managers, working with old useless equipment that just isn't up to the job, vastly unrealistic deadlines and hours on jobs, an extremely bad attitude towards engineers.
We get told to raise issues and make aware when things are not right but when we do we just get ignored and then blamed for not doing anything about it.
The responsibilities on us having to set projects up, initiate the contact with the client, resolve a whole manner of issues that are nothing to do with testing, the amount of admin work put onto us and the expectation of having to effectively run the business doing a vast amount of tasks that are outside of our role and not even remotely our responsibility is just ridiculous, yet we are still expected to get jobs done within the aforementioned insanely unrealistic timescales of which are handed to us.
Yet we still have to fight on and get these things done with no support or incentive to do so.
Management is a massive issue, as in there doesn't seem to be any.
I mean there are people with the title of manager but as to whether they manage as opposed to just drinking tea and eating biscuits whilst trying to figure out why its going wrong at the same time as showing no interest until a job goes over the minimalistic hours assigned to it. This issues rise all the way through the ranks, lower level management through to ever fleeting presence of their managers.
One of the main issues is that the ethos revolves around making as much money as possible, i know this is a business and that is the main driving point behind a business, but they just sell sell sell, tell the client everything they want to hear, mainly lies, take the money and dump the absolute mess of a project on the engineers and forget about it. And if we even dare try to have a civilised discussion about the issue of sales all we get in response , and this is a direct quote from the main man in charge, " oh here we go with the sales bashing again!"
Another quote from one of the other managers is "it's just so hard to find the right staff" , you've had the right staff!!!! They just get treated terribly so, being the right staff, they go somewhere where they'll be appreciated for the very intelligent, and experienced people they are.
In short I'd like to say that improvement is needed, but that would be the biggest injustice of the truth since the o.j. Simpson trial

Cons

Poor training and support.
Low wage for the actual responsibilities and time pressures.
No one is offered the £28k advertised
Negative atmosphere at Loughborough that is infectious. A lot of test engineers have left or are looking to leave. The test engineers are a good bunch. The reason for the negativity is well documented in other reviews.
No overtime and rarely paid.
No inflationary pay rise. Purely results based. With alot of jobs its hard to achieve targets and so like several Test engineers you will not get a rise.

As an additional note, the role title of Test Engineer is probably not 100% accurate at Loughborough. You are essentially a Project manager, planning all your own jobs, liaising with all clients, resolving all problems, sourcing all your own equipment without support. You will be quite isolated and working alone using old and often unavailable equipment. 50% of the job is probably documentation and admin work. The test part is to be carried out to very tight timescales with limited resources. The pressure is on you to hit all targets even when a lot is beyond your control. Some test engineer positions are ok and established but unfortunately you will be filling the positions vacated that are not so good.

I left the company as it is not the role i thought it would be nor the one that was sold to me. The lack of support and training and the fact there was no one left to shadow from day one, made the job incredibly frustrating and stressful. I like to succeed and progress but i found i couldn't. That along with the negativity led me to the point i couldn't continue. It really wasn't worth the money nor the affect on my health.

Cons

Salaries could be higher, recruitment and decision making takes for ever

Cons

Salary is low, beurucracy, prefer external to internal for managerial positions

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Bullying by senior managers and supported by HR Professionals.

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Wants to be a £60 million company but pays less than the market average.
Completely unbalanced wage structure - how can a trainer be on less than their trainee.
Management offer an open door policy which is then shut in your face.
Complete lack of morale due to management behaviour

Cons

Career opportunities limited.
Outdated systems.
Complex business model.