Cutting-edge tech but serious management and transparency issues - Senior QA Engineer Brady Technologies Employee Review

2.0
31 May 2026
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Pros

- Opportunity to use cutting edge technologies - Flexibility to use your own creative development approach to testing.

Cons

- Every 5 years the company recycles its finances thus creating redundancies. - Too much hiring of staff overseas making UK employees redundant - Immoral approach and mindset to redundancies. - Taking on too much work with no proper management of workload and unrealistic estimations. - Management appears to have limited understanding of how trading works in the real world thus reflecting on how the product is delivered. - Very little transparency of how the business is performing and simply sweet coating its performance when it is in real problems. And then displaying the facts and making people redundant in the end.

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Brady Technologies Response
4w
Thank you for taking the time to share your views. Whilst we are pleased that you regard the technologies that we develop as 'cutting edge', we regret that you feel you have had some poor experience at Brady. We regularly share our business performance with employees via our quarterly All Hands meetings. Hiring offshore has worked very well for us, with highly qualified and skilful people joining the business and adding great value and diversity. We continue to have a strong contingent of UK employees based in our London and Cambridge offices as well as remote-working employees elsewhere in the UK.

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1.0
15 Apr 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There used to be a lot great people working there that knew their what they were doing and took good care of their customers but they have been all run off by the incompetent leadership.

Cons

The sales team is a joke, the product team a shambles and customers are not happy. Employee moral is at a all time low. The answer to these problems was a management book called "Employees First" that Chairman Ian Jenks had to sign for extra inspiration before they were distributed to all employees. He was not the author. Any how, he failed realize that by handing out these books with great fanfare, he might just create an expectation amongst employees that their treatment may improve, it did not. There was no mistake however that senior staff certainly put themselves first and employees would remain, well last. Employee turnover is astonishing and so much talent is gone, replaced by well intentioned new employees that lack the skills to turn this company around and have no idea what a mess they are getting themselves into.

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Brady Technologies Response
8y
Thank you for your feedback. It has been quite the journey for us since the book you mentioned was distributed more than a year ago and a lot has changed since. We reorganised the business, conducted Brady’s first ever companywide employee engagement survey, listened to the responses and acted on the feedback. We are now in the middle of an interim survey to review progress on that plan. We are still on a journey, but our 2018 business plan is completely focussed on connecting with and delivering to our customers, providing opportunities and support for our teams and retaining the excellent people we have here at Brady.
2.0
27 Dec 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

A company with well designed products.

Cons

Ian Jenks is certainly inexperienced in the commodities area, which leads to the majority of employees rolling their eyes whenever he speaks. The recent restructuring process lead by Ian Jenks destroyed many functional aspects of the organization.

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