Ricardo Employee Reviews about "senior management"

Thanks for the 5* review! It is great that you listed so many positives about working here, but it is understandable that you have some constructive feedback for us too. We really pride ourselves on the friendly culture that you mentioned, and we value the positive internal structure we have through our employees. Our staff regularly say they love the varied, interesting projects that we work on and we have found that they often enjoy the fast-paced work environment which opens up lots of different opportunities to work with high profile clients. We’re really glad that you have benefitted from both of these things! It is, however, also important to us that we ensure employees feel represented and led by a management team that they support. It is understandable that, in some cases, employees may not agree with the company’s choices, but we do make these with the best interests of the company in mind. If you wish to discuss anything further, we encourage you to open up to your Team Leaders or to contact your Human Resources team. They will be more than happy to help!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We take your comments very seriously and would like to address some of the points you have mentioned. We’re really glad that you found the project work here interesting and were able to make the most of the flexible working options we have available. We are, however, saddened that some of your experience was much less positive. Our ambition for our company is to become an employer of choice. We really value the contribution all employees make to the success of the business and therefore we try to reward each individual accordingly. As a company, it is also important to us that we provide a positive working environment and that employees feel represented and led by a management team that they support. I am sorry if you feel this was not the case for you. We wish you the best of luck in the rest of your career!

Thanks for leaving a 4* review! It is really great to see such positive comments from our current employees. We really care about employee welfare, so we’re delighted to hear that you’ve found a working pattern that suits you. It’s also great that you feel that there is always a chance to grow and develop here! We try to make sure we are an open, transparent employer as we know that every decision made at the top-level impacts not only the strategic direction of the business, but most importantly, our employees. In some cases, employees may not agree with our decisions, and that is understandable, but they are always made in the best interests of our goals as a company. We continually discuss how we can better improve channels of communication across the company, and we welcome all feedback. If you wish to discuss anything further, we would really encourage you to get in touch with your Team Leader or a member of HR. They will be happy to help!

Thanks for the review, we agree that we have a fantastic culture. However if you do have concerns about your personal career development please talk to us in HR, we are here to listen and can help signpost you to development opportunities.

Thank you for taking the time to leave this review. It is great that you have enjoyed the work and who you do it with. At Ricardo, these are some of the qualities that we strive for most. We also work hard to make sure our management system works well for employees and clients alike, so we%E2%80%99re sorry to hear that you have found it challenging at times. It is understandable that with some decision%E2%80%99s employees may not agree with the company%E2%80%99s choices. However, we strongly believe that these are made in the best interest of our goals as a company. If you wish to discuss anything further or you have ideas about how we can improve, we encourage you to get in touch with your manager or our HR department, who would be happy to discuss any feedback that you wish to give us.

Thank you for your feedback. We agree that we have many brilliant engineers. We are pleased that during your time with Ricardo you had the benefit of working alongside them, and also had the opportunity to work with different companies and cultures. We are proud of our client diversity and international scope. We routinely benchmark our salaries and believe our benefits schemes are competitive.

Thank you for leaving your review. We are pleased to see you have left a number of pros from your time working with Ricardo. We are sorry you feel there is a constant threat of redundancy, we see redundancy as a last resort and there have been no redundancy exercises undertaken this year nor are any planned. Unfortunately in some circumstances they become necessary however it would be helpful to understand more about this perceived threat and strongly recommend that you speak to your Team Leader and/or HR Manager to address these concerns. In terms of development and progression we have the R-Learn portal which provides a variety of planned courses, on-line learning and other information to support personal learning and development. Additionally, each Practice also has its own shadowing budget for on-the-job training. Your Team Leader will be able to provide support and guidance as to your learning and skills development and, with the annual PDR process live now, this provides an ideal opportunity for you to have this discussion. However, your Team Leader and HR Manager are always willing to hear your thoughts on your learning and career aspirations throughout the year. Employee engagement is highly valued by us and as such is central to our HR Strategy which includes wellbeing, reward and benefits, high performance and optimising capability and skill as overarching strands, all of which have a member of the senior leadership team as sponsor. Please contact your HR Manager or Team Leader to discuss anything you mentioned in more detail.

Thank you for sharing your views with us, we very much value all feedback, and recognise your commitment over the 5 years you have worked for Ricardo. We are pleased to see you praise the wide variety of projects available and we agree that we have great engineers who work for us. We aim to provide appropriate development opportunities for all our employees, so do please discuss this directly with your manager/team leader. We recongise that working environment is an important factor and we have ongoing plans to modernise our offices, for example the Manchester team has recently moved into a brand new building, take a look at their location page https://careers.ricardo.com/our-culture/locations/united-kingdom/england/manchester.