Does Darwin Technologies pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Darwin Technologies employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.8 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Darwin Technologies. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Darwin Technologies?

73% of Darwin Technologies employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Darwin Technologies 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.8 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Darwin Technologies?

Configuration Specialist (20) , Consultant (17) , Associate Consultant (16) , Software Engineer (9) , Associate Configuration Specialist (6) , Darwin Analyst - L1 (6) , Implementation Consultant (6) , Client Success Manager (5) , Configuration Engineer (5) , Analyst (4) , Business Analyst (3) , Client Manager (3) , Client Support Associate (3) , Client Support Specialist (3) , Junior Configuration Engineer (3)

What are the pros of working at Darwin Technologies according to real employee reviews?

"Great people in the delivery and support teams" ((in 41 reviews)); "Used to have great culture" ((in 39 reviews)); "Great benefits compared to a lot of other companies I've been in." ((in 38 reviews)); "Great Benefit Package" ((in 18 reviews)); "Innovative and good work life balance" ((in 11 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Darwin Technologies according to real employee reviews?

"For some roles Thomsons paid low salaries which meant experience in some departments was limited." ((in 24 reviews)); "It’s almost like Darwin is insulting their own experience and trying to normalise low pay rises (which won’t work for a central London company" ((in 9 reviews)); "High Workload in peak periods" ((in 8 reviews)); "Long hours and peak seasons with little variety." ((in 5 reviews)); "Senior leadership has bad strategic planning" ((in 5 reviews))

What are the top reviewed Darwin Technologies locations?

London , Victoria , Egham , City of London

Darwin Technologies Reviews

3.7

73% would recommend to a friend

(300 total reviews)

Jeff Spritzer and Neil McLellan

72% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

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Darwin Technologies has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 300 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Darwin Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

300 reviews

2.0

9 Jan 2018

Former Employee

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Fun company at the start to work for and very rewarding initially. Lots of fantastic benefits and fantastic people.

Cons

Inexperienced people being moved into management roles. People overworked constantly.

3.0

13 Nov 2014

A real mixed bag, it has so much potential to be great, yet internal politics are hindering it reaching its potential

Technology team

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Some good people that really care about what they do Enjoyable place to work Provides a good platform to express opinions and have an effect on the future of the business if you push hard enough Small enough to have plenty of face to face interaction with teams and people Having an innovation week for the technology firm is great Ability to have a degree of creative freedom if you avoid involving certain known individuals that continually act as blockers to change Nice social scene and friendly working environment with some nice people CEO will buy you a beer and know everyones name which is very rare and a nice touch

Cons

Really need to cut out the "good thomsons person" and "pink" brain washing, at times it seems like a cult initiative and it felt a bit uncomfortable seeing some individuals brain washed that didn't know any better. Silly internal politics between teams that want all the power Some people have only worked one company their whole life so are institutionalised and don't get the bigger picture Need to look at the technology industry and see what others are doing to evolve Not bleeding edge from a technology stand point No long term aligned technology plan from senior management to make the company better from a technology delivery perspective Management are happy doing daily fire fighting as a day job rather than leading teams to delivery excellence A lot of people are sitting tight hoping for a company sale as they have "shares" and not interested in changing to adopt industry standard best practices or improve which is poor

2.0

4 Jan 2018

Becoming more professional but more boring and dull as a consequence

Delivery

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Some great client brands to work on Great people in the delivery and support teams - a good social life Some great parties

Cons

New senior leadership team who are competent but dull means the spark that made Thomsons what is was is diminishing as the company becomes arguably more professional but is losing its personality and atmosphere by the day. Severe skills shortage with people badly overworked and a management team who don't seem to really understand the business or the people (or really seem to care) - sending empty emails with lots of pink font is just really annoying rather than motivational - This has created a them and us feeling among many.

Darwin Technologies Response

8y

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review and I am sorry to hear that you’ve felt the spark has been diminishing. We’ve had a really intense and rewarding 2017, which has resonated differently with all of our Thomsons People, whether they’ve been here for a just a few days or 17 years since we were founded. We are incredibly ambitious - continuing our leadership position in global benefits technology – and we experienced the most phenomenal growth in the past year, on-boarded so many new joiners across our teams, delivered Darwin in more than 90 countries to our clients and brought on even more great global brands as clients We rely entirely on our People, who bring their brilliant blend of characteristics to Thomsons each day, to achieve our success. Naturally, a company growing at such a rate offers our People incredible career growth and experience, whether you are already working at Thomsons or considering joining us. And our ‘pink’, is, and always will be, our special essence that we bring to everything we do at Thomsons, now on a larger and larger scale. It is an absolute privilege to work with a leadership team that is so committed to and passionate about our product, our clients and, most importantly our People. Although you’re no longer with us, we’re still very happy to have a chat if you’d like to go into any of the points you’ve highlighted, either with me, our People Team or our Leadership Team. Getting it right for our People is our number 1 priority, please drop us an e-mail at j4tp@thomsons.com and we can take it from there.

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