Mismanagement policies spoil working here - Developer Heywood Employee Review

2.0
30 Jun 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent salary Good team culture Nice office.

Cons

Software is overdesigned, old and devs are left trying to fix things on their own with no assistance. There is lots of talk about fixing this, but nothing is ever done. DevOps responsibilities are forced on individuals who often don't know how to resolve the frequent infrastructure failures.

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Heywood Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We are pleased you value our people culture as much as we do! Our collaborative culture encourages ideas from everyone, particularly within Technology and Development as part of our continuous improvement ethos. Have an idea? Share it with us! We do ask our teams to take responsibility for our DevOps tooling, such as maintaining and improving our CI/CD pipelines, but this is never down to an individual – your team is there to support you. Pairing with a more experienced developer is often a good way of improving your knowledge in this area. There are also opportunities for training and upskilling such as our Development Community, monthly down-tools day (Hive), and e-Learning subscriptions such as A Cloud Guru and Pluralsight. If there are other training opportunities you think we could benefit from please share with your people manager or via our internal suggestion portal, Aha! As a business we want to retain our talented colleagues and one of the ways in which we do this is via the career progression frameworks which are in place across many functions of the business, including software development. This enables individuals to apply for promotion when the time is right for them. Promotions aren’t for everyone – some find themselves in a role that suits them and their career aspirations. Others want to climb the proverbial ladder, whatever that ladder may look like. We encourage everyone to discuss their career ambitions with their people manager, who can advise on and support personal aspirations.

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