Equal Experts Reviews

Pros

A true values driven organisation that has progressive ways of working and attitudes to their people. Always seeking to learn, evolve and to do better. A world apart from the usual traditional IT consultancies and all the better for it . A focus on doing what's right for clients and their people above office politics and profits.

Pros

Interesting and challenging projects, encourages a great work-life balance (depending a bit on the individual client's working practices), some really good people who are highly skilled and in the most part humble and open to ideas. Lots of autonomy to make decisions, try things

Advice to Management

Keep reinforcing the values, experiment a bit more with developing innovative internal processes and don't be afraid to try something and fail/learn.

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.