PayAlly Reviews

This is the worst place I have ever worked. Senior management is incompetent. They always complain that employees don’t won’t to work over time or that they are not committed enough. Senior management comment that employees are too expensive and they look for any opportunity to get rid off people , only to hire again, thinking that employees are the problem. Not seeing that their poor skills are the problem. You can’t trust senior management as they constantly change their mind, they also gossip a lot, commenting on how people dress.

-Leadership culture is hostile and unprofessional. The CEO regularly speaks to staff in a demeaning, infantilizing way, creating an atmosphere where people operate like robots rather than professionals. -Serious governance concerns: senior management has very poor understanding of how a regulated firm should be operated. -Heads of departments are mostly relatives/friends of the CEO - they are mostly clueless and lack depth of knowledge in relation to their positions. -Disturbingly, senior leaders (including the CEO) have used racist language about Black people in the workplace. This is not treated as a serious issue internally. HR laughed it off. -HR processes are weak. Hiring is suspiciously fast, with little evidence of proper assessment roles. -HR runs an “employee survey” that is entirely performative. Feedback is not acted upon, and nothing substantively changes as a result. -Onboarding is chaotic and inadequate. New hires receive minimal guidance, are left to “figure it out,” and are then penalised for not meeting vague expectations. -Targets in the first two months are unrealistic and disconnected from operational reality. You will be fired suddenly with unjustifiable reasons. -There is no clear strategy, structure, or consistent ways of working. Decision-making feels ad hoc. -Weekly Friday company meetings feel like an open animal market: lots of noise and posturing, but little concrete discussion or follow-through. -Office environment is tacky and unprofessional (e.g., political artwork of Trump and graffiti money on the walls). -Client satisfaction is visibly low, which places additional pressure on staff. -“Team trip” arrangements were poorly planned and inappropriate (three adults placed in a room with separate single beds). A terrible experience where staff were drinking in the small hotel room of the CEO.