Reading Room Reviews

Revolving door recruitment policy is bad for morale. No communication from management about anything. People are just sacked, and never spoken of again. A lot of the senior management team aren't natural leaders. Why this is I don't know. Perhaps they were promoted too early and in a time when there was no one else to do it. The CEO is a genius, undoubtedly. But she's not for everybody. One person doesn't constitute a HR department. The pay and progression structure is shady and unclear. They have added another tier to management in London, and I hope that the new MD (who I think does possess the right leadership qualities) is able to make a dent in the ancient processes and systems which they claim are fluid, but are frozen and rigid like the look in the eyes of the management when targets aren't met, and another great client slips away because the wonderful team they were sold only ever existed on paper.

Senior Management team are clueless and limp. To many distinctly average members of staff, with inflated ego's, who are in turn given comedy job titles, such a "director", just to keep them. The majority of good people leave. Not sure why the handful of good ones (you can count them on one hand) remain? The lack of technical understanding throughout the whole company is shocking. Cutting edge, that's a joke! Risk Adverse Change Adverse Stuck in the dark ages in terms of process and management Awful working conditions - the office may be nice and shiny, however, the treatment of their staff stinks the place out No work/life balance - be prepared to be forced, not asked, to work out of hours all the time for no acknowledge or payback of any sorts. High pressure for no reward Be prepared to be thrown to the dogs anytime something goes wrong, even if it's not your fault and you've just done what you were asked. Be prepared for the same people to take the credit for your work when things go well and draw any sort of attention. Employ too many graduates, who have no idea, and then give them no support Extremely high turnover of staff, worst I've seen The benefits package is salary sacrifice! Little to no pension contribution (1%) The place is riddled with rumours and gossip CEO only shows up for meetings with the bank and spends most of the time drunk How much alcohol you can drink seems to be of more value than how hard you work. I'm not one to post things like this in the public domain, however, the score for Reading Room on this site is definitely not a true reflection of the working conditions. I feel it is important people should know what they're getting into before they make the mistake of applying or accepting a job here.