Equal Experts Reviews

Pros

Fantastic work / life balance.

Colleagues are treated equally across the network, regardless of position held.

All ideas, thoughts and suggestions for improvements are valued. Feedback is actively sought for any process changes, providing employees with the opportunity to have their input and influence on changes within the business.

You are treated as a grown up and entrusted to get the job done.

Great colleagues to work with, everyone is willing to share knowledge and help others, really positive atmosphere / team spirit.

Pros

- Great work-life balance.
- Your opinion is actively sought and valued.
- You have the opportunity to influence at all levels.
- There is a real team feel - individuals respect and support each other.
- Autonomy - you are trusted to do the right thing and to use your expertise.

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you are doing.

Pros

* Highly autonomous
* Lots of opportunity to positively impact how and where the business grows
* Lots of interesting client engagements, with real and interesting challenges
* Great leadership team who get it and create a culture that enables growth
* Working with a first class team of capable and passionate associates
* Great company profile so great to be able to blog and speak on behalf of a respected company

Advice to Management

Evidently doing what's needed to grow

Pros

- Work life balance is actually a thing! I can't stress this point enough. EE recognise that people are more than work. By being able to drop kids off or get an emptier train or wait at home when they have a last minute fridge delivery mean individuals perform better at work
- In the 3 months I've worked here, everyone I've met is a specialist in their field. It's refreshing to work with people who are passionate about what they do but also recognise when they need to lean on other people
- Everyone is maxed but I have found that people have always made the time to help me develop skills, feel confident delivering as EE or just have a coffee to help me grow my network
- The company lives its values and wants to be right by its client. Having worked for a large consulting firm and then a small start up it's refreshing not always be chasing the next sale.

Advice to Management

I feel like the company has been successful because of making lots of small decisions they've made in the journey. Don't loose the spirit or EE-ness as we continue to grow.

Pros

- Great network of smart, competent and friendly people
- Almost no management, no egotistical people
- Ability to switch between different projects (if appropriate & available)
- Good business model and hiring process
- Helpful staff

Advice to Management

- With this amazing network of people, EE could create great products as well. I'd like to see more contributions from EE to open source world and see their own products.

- Encouraging entrepreneurship and people to try their own ideas in the network and something like an internal incubator could be great for EE to build it's own products.

- People could be encouraged to develop their own products by sparing certain amount of time each month (say, a day per month) and a partnership model could be offered for the ideas liked

Pros

- The standard of hiring is really strong. They look for technically strong individuals with good work ethic and the right personality to work in a software development consultancy.
- Because the vast majority of folks are contractors, the turnover is healthy. The teams scale up quickly and if someone doesn't work out, they leave at short notice.
- The events are very good and well attended.

Advice to Management

Are you bringing everyone to the table? Or just the chosen few?

Pros

-Working around some really smart people who are very passionate about what they do
-Incredibly Enabling environment, if you have an idea as long as you have the ability / drive you can make it happen
- The clues in the name individuals and ideas are given the 'equal' respect no matter what the job title
-Client focused approach, at all levels of the business employees seem dedicated to provide quality and value to their clients

Advice to Management

Keep up the good stuff, some more staff nights out might be nice!

Pros

If you want to be surrounded by egoless, intelligent and collaborative colleagues, Equal Experts is perfect for you. The network is extremely helpful and friendly, and it's a place you'll be certain to form long lasting friendships.

Advice to Management

Keep all the good work you're doing with restructuring EE. But don't let yourself get swallowed by process and become rigid! The ad-hoc and dynamic style of EE as a business is what keeps it personal and a great place to work.

Pros

I'm working with the most experienced group of people it's ever been my pleasure to work with. As Equal Experts looks at values as part of the recruitment process, I'm also working with some of the nicest, most pragmatic people as well. This makes delivery as easy as it ever can be and a lot of fun to boot.

If you've got enough experience and you want to work in a caring, fun, interesting team then take a good look at these guys. I liked them so much I went permie after thinking that I'd never do that again.

The flat structure makes it really easy to discuss anything with anyone. Even the MD is available for anyone to talk to. Show me another company where you can say that.

The associate networks means that, if you want to, you can go off and do something else for a while and then be welcomed back at any time (providing there's an open role, obviously).

Advice to Management

Keep going guys

Pros

Although EE are a company that is staffed mainly by contractors (75%) you would never know this.

They say they are a company of grown ups and this is definitely the case, structure is flat, everyone is trusted to do their jobs and there is none of the usual politics or nonsense you get in almost all other companies.

As an associate (contractor) you really get the best of all worlds as you get paid great day rates and have a fantastic support network and welcoming culture.

If you are a contractor at the top of your game then look no further, if you are thinking of going contracting then look no further. EE is the place to be

Advice to Management

Keep it up - I'm proud to work with EE