Quanticate Reviews

- We have lost lots of great staff. - Management focused on budgets and time sheeting every detail. - Promotions can take a long time - there are great people who have 5-10 years experience and still not at "Senior" level and 20+ years experience and still not at "Principal" level. - The emphasis in "Leading" projects has shifted to checking staff have completed the 2 parallel time sheet systems properly - instead of effectively collaborating with the client, to understand the project and make sure a quality delivery is made. - Computer systems a bit dated - takes 15 minutes to log on. - No annual pay increases to keep up with inflation. - Insufficient improvement of processes and proactive involvement by QA. - Upper management give the impression that they don't trust their staff (even heads of function). - If weekend working is required you won't get paid for the first 5 hours work. - Issues with generic templates in Word and power point making some work frustrating.

There is an obsession with time booking and chargeability. While these things do obviously matter, the rather petty and small-minded way this is pursued alienates people. A lot of time is taken up independently filling in two redundant systems which are then expected to agree exactly. Although there is a lot of emphasis on training, this is often poorly constructed and indiscriminately applied. There is a tick-the-box, one-size-fits-all mentality at work here, which often does very little to train or motivate. Less training and more education would be good. HR processes are bureaucratic and impenetrable. I still don't really understand the annual review cycle, which doesn't make it easy to say what your "objectives" for the year are. Resourcing is rather chaotic, with a lot of wasted resources (or fed-up people as they are also known). There is a lack of willingness to actually talk to the people involved.