Horrible company to work for - Anonymous employee Helios Towers Employee Review

1.0
29 Dec 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Chocolates (and fruit) in the kitchen, but only if you arrive early, otherwise all gone in no time. Company's pension contribution (the basic is 9%) Some colleagues are nice and very "Africa oriented" staff, and more in general quite multicultural, which is positive (but you are in London so you should expect that).

Cons

4 days in the office since September 2025 (no flexibility and no minimum interest for staff wellbeing), Low pays compared to job market for many basic (and less basic) jobs. Workload ALWAYS over the top and understaffed .. but YOU are under-performing (they are growing fast but they want to squeeze you as much as possible ... in the contract you will find a clause saying that you agree to work more than 48 hours, and ... "without compensation"). No real development/progress opportunities and no clear path for that, just underpaid exploitation. Turnover very high; at least 40% employees changed in London office since I was hired. Top management doesn't listen and wants just to impose itself. Very "politicized" environment and plenty of favouritism (also if they want to give the impression that they reward "excellence and hard work"). They want to give an appearance of caring for the staff, but once you step into the office after a short time you can feel the pressure and see the dissatisfaction directly in people' eyes. No smiles at all. Very depressing environment. On top of that expect to do also the "puppet" every Tuesday on a regular basis for the weekly "Stand up" .. all for the top management entertainment (that obviously won't be there ... but wants you to "participate" (so expect to spend further time resources and efforts (which you don't have) on that).

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4.0
11 Jan 2020
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Pros

perfect place to grow in career.

Cons

Not giving employees the chance to make decisions they feel is right.

2.0
14 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great colleagues. Work can be meaningful if you tackle the right projects/ focus.

Cons

Mandated Mon-Thurs in office, monitored, tracked. They will question you if you miss a day and don't get approval, as if you are in school. No sense of goodwill towards staff attendance, as soon as you miss a week. No flexibility. They don't listen to staff for any meaningful decisions that impact our lives - people tried to push back on this and received a blatant 'No'. Only join this company if you enjoy commutes & 4/5 days in the office, plus no flexibility and continual monitoring of your attendance. Senior staff are pushing the mandatory 4 days like it's a good thing, and they like it, and everyone has lost respect for senior staff as a result.

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