Pendragon Reviews

Cons

Long hours
Values change a lot

Cons

Bonus scheme revoked
Favouritism by management

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Job description does not match job

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To many emails not always productive

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Zero progression within departments that is only amplified by people in management creating jobs for themselves out of nowhere.

Communication within the marketing team is a joke. Deadlines will be dropped onto teams laps without any planning, then when the end product is not what they thought they will complain.

Ancient company standards in terms of technology. People working on laptops that can no longer support the demands and I hear the design team are working with broken equipment and software.

Cons

Very very poor training. Just expected to get on with what they ask after 2 weeks of being bombarded with info. Then u get paired up on the wrong section. Then u ask for more help and are just fobbed off. Not once did any manager check my abilities or ask or offer more support. Or sit with me and see what my strengths and weaknesses was. In end i just walked out as i felt was put in a situation i had no control over. My advice unless u have worked in a call center before avoid at all costs.

Cons

The Marketing team is a very strange place to be. They talk the talk about moving with the times and digitisation but in reality it all rests on impressing the right person in the department. Say ‘how high?’ when the ‘next-in-line-for-the-throne’ says jump or your life will be made hell.

The terminology of roles within the marketing department is not like anywhere I’ve worked before, almost like they're making it up as they go along. Marketing leaders are glorified web admin with everyone running around like headless chickens in a bid to get sales. There’s little desire to make key strategic changes that will mean happier customers because people don’t care enough. Why else would a company (Evans Halshaw) disable their Facebook reviews? You can see from the page comments that it’s about pennies and not people.

Add into that favouritism and a hefty dose of nepotism and the result is a sad but classic tale of keeping the millions being amassed within the ‘family’. The rich getting richer (and bragging about their wealth) while the worker bees slave away for national living wage with a huge expectation to stay late and work weekends for nothing. They throw in some free drinks at the end of the year at an awards event which is mostly attended by senior leaders and paid for by suppliers, you'll be rewarded if you're brining lots of cash in.

When they make a huge fuss internally about people being voted 'most influential in the industry', I'm unsurprised because, let's be honest, how hard is it to be influential when you're the offspring of the CEO?!

Cons

Can be slow to act on decisions and plans.
Training is basic and needs to be reviewed for people to truly excel.

Cons

- there's no progression
- they sell you a dream
- prepare to get treated next to nothing by 'leaders'
- centralised and employees have little autonomy

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Unsecured future with lack of communication