New Valve - Business Development Manager Oxford Flow Employee Review

The company is pretty small still, so changes and improvements happen quickly. You get to develop cutting edge technology, working on all aspects of the development cycle (conception, modelling, testing, technical drawing, manufacture). Management are supportive and trusting of the technical team, giving you as much responsibility as you want to lead and collaborate on projects. There's room for career progression. You learn a lot of things (technical, professional, the industry) in a very short amount of time. You aren't expected to know everything, but you are expected to pitch in and get your hands dirty, learning what you need to in order to get the job done. The environment is supportive and encouraging, and your colleagues will always help you out when you need it. Given the size of the company, you know exactly what everyone is doing, including the business development team. Technical team involvement with the business development side is encouraged, but equally you can stay purely technical if you want. The technical team has a 90% retention rate since it was founded three years ago.

Nature of a tech start-up I guess, but juggling multiple projects can get frustrating when you can't spend as long as you'd like on a particular problem.

Great Benefits and support for developing ideas and professional development. Company was very generous with rewarding employees after achieving milestones. There were and still are engineers who are talented and great inspiration to learn from. Teamwork was quite natural as everyone will get on fulfilling targets as a team. It was clearly a start-up and there were a lot of opportunities to be involved in different projects depending on interest and required professional development. The supervisors and managers were very good at listening, welcoming ideas, and providing immediate support (whatever it takes) when required.

Unfortunately there were a couple of "bad apples", who also had views not really aligned with Oxford's spirit, who would attempt to make minorities have uncomfortable experiences successfully unnoticed from senior management, thanks to great manipulation skills. There has also been occasions, due to being a start-up, therefore in the process of building a definite company structure, that unqualified, untrained and biased staff will take on sensitive non-technical matters which were supposed to be dealt by trained professionals.