Computacenter Reviews

If you are reading this thinking about enrolling on the sales associate program, I would recommend you save your energy for something else. The program is basically classroom learning, presenting and "shadowing i.e. annoying" different people around the business for 18 months until you pass and get given a minuscule account to manage. During my time here, I was told to wear heels (lol yes really), wear my hair up and one archaic director even corrected me on how I held a knife and fork. The directors are the rudest bunch of people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting - obsessed with their own egos and business politics. At the end of the program, if they don't think "you're one of them", you are at the mercy of the job market or shoved in a mediocre role elsewhere in the business. The bad thing is as well, that your time at CC means nothing to the job market - you haven't closed any deals, you haven't built any relationships or applied any knowledge to architecting a solution so you are just as inexperienced in their eyes as you were when you left university. My advice for anyone looking to get into IT sales is to target one of the mid-sized IT firms, work your bottom off and enter enterprise level when you've got some decent experience and the klout to demand a decent basic. Do not waste your time on these programs as you gain nothing practical from them at all - you just get brainwashed into thinking this sexist, medieval corporate culture is the norm whereas there are so many businesses flourishing and embracing people's individuality. Good luck!

Shallow and meaningless American-style corporate mentality is ever-present, management bombards staff with empty slogans that don’t have any representation in reality. Obsession with trivial statistics, targets, logs and time-sheets. Micromanagement and bullying is common. Appalling lack of communication, everything is kept secret from the staff till the last moment. No career progression or development available (unless you are the kind of individual that likes to stab people in the back and daily sucks up to the management, then maybe after 4 years you will become a team leader/slave driver, once your boss moved up the ranks), below average pay with laughable pay rises (this leads to talent desertion and shortage of knowledgeable staff). If you are internally promoted don't expect a pay rise, even after 3 years. Management ranks are full of incompetent individuals that only know how to play the corporate system ("don't hate the player, hate the game"?) so they can make themselves look good on paper, in reality they can often be moronic bullies damaging the company in the short and long run, but the management ranks from top to bottom cover one another’s backs, there is no accountability, even when they lose the company £100,000+ in contracts, due to their feckless and arrogant behaviour, it gets hushed up and they still get some sort of an award at the end of the year, surreal! They run it like their own little sweat shop, some junior managers hire their own inexperienced and unqualified mates and family through the back door, without any screening process (hard to believe this is happening in a 10,000+ staff, £3 billion company!). All this goes unnoticed or ignored by the senior management, even when reported, and leads to a hostile and frustrating work environment. Hard-working staff with many years of service are made redundant at a click of a finger, no redeployment. The CEO has never been to the branch, doesn't matter how successful it’s been... he doesn't mind going abroad every week though. All he cares about is the shareholders, not his staff (not uncommon in the XXI century I suppose). I, for one, won't mention his blog ;) P.S. Don’t get fooled by the 5 stars, 2 lines, no real criticism, superficial reviews that get posted here by their own HR to bump up their dismal ratings, this is the sort of tactics that they use.