SimplyVAT.com Reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(19 total reviews)

64% positive business outlook

SimplyVAT.com has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 19 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SimplyVAT.com employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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19 reviews
1.0
11 May 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The only good thing about the company is working from home, the flexibility.

Cons

The company is a mess with poor management, it is a chaos. They offer a "training" (I can't even say that it's a training, it's a expalnation or whatever it is), and the company expect the staffs to do everything on their own, even knowing that VAT can be very difficult. Their turnover is so high that great people are leaving the company for being so disorganized. Unfortunately the company talks about collaboration and compassion but in practice this doesn't exist, it's everyone for themselves, especially if you need a team leader, they basic don't respond to clients queries or even call the staff to see if they need help. Their quarter survey It's just so that employees think something will be done, but, nothing changes. It's a place I don't even recommend to my enemy

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SimplyVAT.com Response
2y
We are sorry to hear that you feel this way. Our Company places a high level of importance on ensuring our staff are trained to a high level in terms of the relevant knowledge, skills and systems to enable them to deliver successfully within their respective roles. Training is a regular feature and we have a dedicated resource to focus on this area to ensure employees are adequately equipped to deal with their work. We encourage colleagues to provide feedback on any improvements that can be made to training and when feedback is given, the necessary adjustments are made to ensure the training style and content is relevant. In terms of our values, we do strive to use the values to guide our way of working both internally and externally. This does take constant practice and we do feel progress is made, for example, during our company wide meetings, the colleague-to-colleague recognition nominations are awarded to numerous colleagues across the business in the 2 values you’ve cited - collaboration and compassion - as well as the others - honesty, freedom and happiness. In relation to your feedback regarding (I assume) your Team Leader, I am sorry that you feel you have had this experience. I will discuss this with our Team Leaders, to ensure they take your feedback on board. We do encourage constructive feedback continually and to this end there is the ability to provide anonymous feedback through a dedicated internal feedback channel whilst employed within the business. We wish you all the very best for the future, and please be assured that your concerns have been heard.
1.0
23 Apr 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I can’t think of one

Cons

The CEO has no idea of how to run a business, her decision making is extremely questionable and makes no sense. She continually changes her mind from day to to. Impossible to work with. They employ inexperienced managers who are not capable of their roles. They pay their staff very little and expect the world, hence why they have inexperience in key roles. CEO will not listen even though they have company values, she doesn’t live them herself. I’d be surprised if they’re still in business in a few years time. Would not wish this company on my worst enemy.

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SimplyVAT.com Response
3y
Thanks for taking the time to share your views online. As always, it would have been great to address your concerns whilst you were in the business. The CEO is founder and owner of a company launched from conception 9 years. In this time, the CEO has created an exciting and forward thinking, employee-focused business that is thriving in a very challenging economic environment. The values put in place by the employees within SimplyVAT.com are Happiness; Compassion; Collaboration; Honesty and Freedom - these values are used daily to influence the behaviours of employees including the CEO. Small, expanding companies are not for everyone. We hope you've found a working environment that suits you better and is more aligned with your own values and ambitions. We wish you all the best for the future!
1.0
13 Jun 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

flexi time, other than that nothing!

Cons

no employee actually has a clue of what they are doing. They enploy non experienced people, offer one week some sort of presentations and call it training. After that, you are pretty much on your own. communication happens on teams where you can ask questions, wait a day or so for an answer (which is most of the time wrong) Unless you really love vat, no point in bothering, real careers with real salaries happen elsewhere.

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SimplyVAT.com Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to give your thoughts, though it would have been really helpful to have your feedback whilst you worked with us as it seems that you would have had invaluable input. We are continually improving our processes and the training of our staff and now have a dedicated trainer within the organisation to ensure the highest quality training is given to our teams. In any case, we do wish you all the best with your career.
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