Probrand Reviews

3.7

76% would recommend to a friend

(45 total reviews)
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Peter Robbins

85% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Probrand has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 45 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Probrand employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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45 reviews
2.0
23 May 2018

Seriously???

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are lots of whizzy expensive gadgets around the place to look at -tho why is anybody's guess - and there are some brilliant people around who do their best to support those around them. The worst of the directors are actually gone

Cons

Too much nonsense and lies, lots of undelivered promises, not enough focus on staff (seriously, has anyone actually received one of the mythical bi-annual pay reviews mentioned in their previous response except I'm guessing managers or maybe sales).

1.0
6 Nov 2018
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Pros

There are none, everyone runs out of there at 17.30

Cons

Having worked at the company for a good length of time I would not recommend to anyone going to work here. The company offers no benefits to the staff and the directors lists ‘free tea and coffee’ as a benefit. The hours expected to work are longer than any company I have seen or spoken too, the director also expects people to then take home laptops and work from home. The expenses policy is enough to drive anyone crazy, every single penny is count and receipts have to be provided. Blaming the HMRC for the rules which aren’t true of any other company. Holiday is the minimum requirement but they do allow you to buy more which has to be signed off by a manager. The sales staff are micro managed and every day your calls and time on the phone are checked and if you don’t keep these up you are put on performance management. The culture in the office is be grateful you have a job, they spent some money on some posters which was supposed to change the culture but how do posters change anything? Lunch breaks are monitored and toilet breaks are checks. The directors gets involved in company incentives to stop the top earners from wining where possible as he doesn’t think it’s fair! I have never worked anywhere underperformance is promoted. All the managers/directors have been put in place because they were good at there jobs, this doesn’t mean they are good managers as they all have very little people skills Managers from other departments will not talk to you if you upset them, this can go on for months. Directors then don’t want to manager the conflict as this will cause further issues so sales have to grin and bear it. HR will befriend people on social media In order to watch what people are up to...... They environment is also homophobia, racist and the ‘C’ word is also thrown around when talking about staff. There is no pressure to have a review as they are scared you will ask for a pay rise. There are no pay rises as the director tells everyone there is no money in the business for anyone to have one. The best line of all was when the directors told all the sales staff if you want training ‘google it’ When you hand in your notice, they don’t pay you any of your outstanding commissions, when you take umbrage with this you are told to keep it quiet. There is a power hour every Tuesday which is a desperate attempt by the directors to get sales making telephone calls. All in all is was a terrible experience and this place needs a good shake up from top to bottom.

1.0
10 May 2023

Be Careful

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Pros

I am not sure as my experience was terrible. I joined the company at the back end of my Masters. Maybe working from home could be a Pro and the office aesthetics are quiet nice,

Cons

Systemic behaviour of bullying and indifferent treatment being covered up. I felt as though I was in a WWF ring and my head was being trampled time after time with no where to run for help. Being treated differently was something I faced regularly. If you have a really nasty line manager as I did you could fine yourself being bullied during your one to one meetings to the point that you are crying and the person is still screaming and seemingly gaining pleasure from your pain. This is of course is my personal experience and it was my worst working experience to date. I was thrown into a time warp of indifferent treatment Makes no sense to run for help as this will then turn into a personal witch hunt. Be careful of the spin

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