Pros
Excellent colleagues, ability to work from home fulltime.
Cons
Absolutely no focus on employee retention. The current employee turnover rate is through the roof and management do not seem to care. Talent is walking out the door on an almost weekly basis. Salaries are kept low and departments are constantly forced to do more with less. Code Institute graduates can expect to walk into roles with higher starting salaries than Code Institute themselves offer. There is a very good reason Code Institute don't list salaries on their job postings, and it's because they know full-well that they're not competitive. Improvements to both products and staff quality of life have been almost completely shelved over the past 12 months in the name of ruthless cost saving. The appearance of work is more highly valued than actually working. Having everyone look busy all the time is more important than having everyone actually working on a business-critical project. Communication within the company is extremely dysfunctional, and micromanagement is rife. Various heads of department don't seem to be trusted to do their jobs. As can be seen on their public Linkedin profiles, not one member of the board of directors has experience in education, and it shows at all levels of the business. Education focused departments are constantly being pushed to operate like sales departments despite their fundamental differences. Refusal to listen to dissent. Negative employee reviews on Glassdoor are quickly followed up by a spate of positive reviews in an attempt to bury them, spearheaded by senior management and the more well-paid employees of Code Institute.
