Teya Reviews

- Unprofessional working environment: People could come off as friendly, social and close at first, but soon you realise this comes at a cost of unprofessional and inappropriate workplace relationships & unclear boundaries between work and social interactions. Unless you manage to get in the inner circle of 100 people in the company, which usually consists of the very original employees, you won’t find yourself a social life there that’s worth maintaining, and even then, it is not a healthy social life & work relations. - Favouritism: Management only promotes and gives pay rises to their friends and the in-crowd. How decisions are made are not transparent at all. Limited growth opportunities unless you’re managers favourite and you go out to parties with them regularly. On the other hand, if you’re one of the originals, you will get away with anything including being incompetent at your job and slacking all day. - No salary reviews, no bonus schemes: No annual salary review or similar structure in place, not even in line with the inflation. Nothing! Unless you’re willing to negotiate and push hard for every single pay rise ( in which case you still might not get it approved by top senior people because of financial constraints of the company), you won’t get any pay rise (of course unless again you’re everyone’s favourite). Also no bonus schemes at all. - Misleading job titles: You will be promised one thing / contracted a role when you sign your contract, what you get is completely different even from day 1. This is a very regular phenomenon that happens to 80% of the employees. You get random tasks/job titles you didn’t even ask for or specifically said no to before you signed your contract. Then they fire you or make you redundant for the roles/responsibilities you DID NOT ask for. You get changing teams and job titles constantly without consulting your preferences, that could be good in some cases if you want flexibility with changing roles, but most cases, people just end up being unhappy. - Inexperienced heads of teams and top management & blaming culture: As favouritism plays a huge role in this company, you always end up with people who are either in the ‘in-crowd’ or ‘say yes’ to leaders in top management or in the roles that are out of their depth. They are inexperienced often cases very young professionals who have no idea how to be in the positions they are in, or just completely unsuited for their roles. The very top dogs don’t know how to run a business, they blame everyone else but themselves for the problems the company faces. They don’t know how to motivate their employees apart from making cliché and cringey motivational speeches (obv they are not willing to pay you). No structure and proper policies/rules in place yet they expect everyone on their best behaviour and if you’re not, it’s your own fault not the environment/culture/system they set. They are dismissive and avoidant with their ‘addressing the issues’ and never open and direct. They will try to shift the blame onto the employees and basically gaslight you making you think you’re the problem. - No job security: random firing happens periodically with no consulting your team leader or anyone closely works with you. How those decisions are made are behind the scenes and non transparent they can’t tell you the criteria it’s based on. It’s also done in a way that is so obviously disrespectful and they don’t even try to hide it. You get hired one day, fired next month because you’re raising too many questions. No coordination between hiring and firing departments. You’re just a number to them which is fine if they quit doing a bad pretending job about how they care about their employees. They don't even want to pay you severance if you are a reletively new employee - legal but unjust. Most people are on a work visa and they ruin people’s lives based on nothing. Unless you are the managers favourite in which case your job is most highly paid for your level of experience and you will never get fired. SINKING SHIP. RUN!

Please believe every negative review on here because it is very true. Be aware they had an incentive for employees to leave 5* reviews on Glassdoor to imporve their scores, as Talent team were struggling to hire because of it!!! Teya, former Saltpay, is not a company, they are a mix of 10-15 different companies for licenses, software etc . its a caca show! As a financial company , they failed to terminate me and take me off payroll, resulting in me getting paid for 6 months after I resigned, although I contacted them after the 1st wrong salary. The excuse was our payroll system was not working ?!! This resulted in me showing earnings of over 100k with HMRC and was charged taxes accordingly! Although I sent back every single wrong salary I received! The communication from their side was close non-existing for months until I have emailed every single employee I could think of in the company asking for anyone to reply. The company claims to be multicultural - they speak Portuguese as a majority, during team meetings, although not everyone is Portuguese/Brazilian. if you don't speak the language , they tell you you should learn it. The feeling in the company / team feels like an American high school where people managers whispers with other (favorite) team members and laugh - think Mean Girls , super immature, but then people managers are like 20 years old , managing people with as much work experience as they have of life. People managers are with ZERO people management experience - and no training is provided - they assign a manager and let them free style. My manager was unaware of what "meeting minutes" were, there was also a massive language barrier, let alone understand the UK best practice when it comes to meetings, probation meetings etc. Micromanagement is often seen - and this is because of lack of experience and self confidence in managers, also a lot of pressure from CEO, founders etc The mentality is: we ONLY focus on the things going wrong. Massive blame culture, to the point that the founder calls you bad words during meetings. Aggressive and unprofessional. The communication is all over the place, with no clear policies. Meaning you speak with 10 different people getting 12 different answers :)) The head of culture refers to employees, during global meetings with the F word. one of their values is: say it as it is: and some take advantage of this and behave like *C word* They advertise remote working - but they have a "you need to come to the office so the BIG BOSS can see you " mentality - also they expect you to work more than 40h per week - not paid - and they see it as a bad thing if you leave the office early. I often found myself 5 days in the office before 8 am in and after 8 pm out - again - remote working was advertised ! This was the most chaotic workplace I have experienced in my 20 years of working experience, and I sold potatoes by the highway, at age 7. They hire fresh graduates in positions like HR - when reality hits them they are incapable to deal with the situations. 1 because its easier to manipulate and they don't have previous experience to compare it to so they take Teya as wow - soon they realize its a caca show. hence hundreds have left !! the attrition rate is disgusting. They fire people like its nothing. Do yourself a favor and stay away from Teya / Saltpay or whatever else they plan to call themselves in the future