The Very Group Reviews
Updated 12 Feb 2020
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Henry Birch
36 Ratings
Pros
"Great people and a great company" (in 11 reviews)
"easy work, and good people to work with" (in 10 reviews)
Cons
"Pettiness senior management lack of trust" (in 6 reviews)
"Location is on the outskirts of Liverpool" (in 5 reviews)
- Featured Review
"Family Friendly, Good work/life balance."
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I have been working at The Very Group full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Great culture, amazing dedicated people.
Cons
Very fast paced environment if you can keep up!
The Very Group2020-01-16Thank you for your review! We know this place can be a fast-paced, challenging environment to work sometimes, with the level of ambition we have comes exciting avenues in tech, data, credit and retail! It's great that we can share this journey with a brilliant bunch of people too :-)
Continue reading "Fun and friendly place to work with lots of opportunity"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at The Very Group part-time for more than 10 years
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Full of friendly and professional people, always there to help each other and do the best for our colleagues and customers
Cons
Can’t think of any at the moment!!!
The Very Group2020-02-11The Very Group Response
February 14, 2020 – Employer Brand Manager
Thanks for much for this lovely review, we couldn't agree with you more, great people make this a great place to work!
Continue reading"Great Culture, Great People"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at The Very Group full-time for more than 10 years
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Always working on continuous improvement, listening to employees, respectful of work/life balance needs.
Cons
High expectations, tight deadlines, need for process improvements for delivery.
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February 14, 2020 – Head of Culture
Thanks so much for sharing this positive yet balanced review! Its great to see that the efforts and high expectations we set around listening to our people and working to make things better is being noticed. Its also great to hear your thoughts on process improvements, if you'd like to share more about this you can at glassdoor@theverygroup.com
Continue reading"Great Company"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at The Very Group full-time for more than 3 years
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This company looks after their employees very well compared to other companies I have worked for. Good salary, good holiday and good flexible hours. Also a nice, sociable, successful company to work for. Great work/life balance.
Cons
No job progression as nobody leaves the company.
The Very Group2020-01-07The Very Group Response
January 10, 2020 – Employer Brand Manager
Thanks for your review, glad to hear your positive feedback on our exciting social events, hope you enjoyed Christmas party! :-) Helping people to progress their careers is really important to us. Currently, around 50% of our appointments into bigger roles are filled by internal candidates, but we’ve set ourselves a goal of moving this to 75%, so we hope you'll see more opportunities across the business in the near future.
Continue reading"Neutral feelings"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at The Very Group full-time for more than a year
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Good pay and benefits, facilities in Speke are great, nice people to work with who are usually hard working and want to do a good job. Monthly briefs to whole business are helpful. Good company events.
Cons
Lots of people working hard but don't get enough recognition for what they do and don't get very much support or even rewarded with career progression, external people get hired or they keep same team structure for years and years. Parking at head office isn't great if you live locally and you have to pay to park at local hotel. Commuting hard work because of bad traffic in Speke every day. When business is going through change or people leave the business - the info and emails we receive don't sound very genuine, feels forced and abrupt with no emotion.
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January 10, 2020 – Employer Brand Manager
Thanks for sharing your feedback on your experiences working here; it's great to hear you enjoy the generous benefits we receive as colleagues of Shop Direct. We're serious about building great careers here, so we're sorry to hear you're not feeling the benefit of this. We have lots of exciting plans for 2020 as we continue to rewrite retail. We'd welcome you to pop along to come and chat with our Talent and Development team about what these plans could mean to you.
Continue reading"Brilliant place to work"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at The Very Group full-time for less than a year
Pros
Culture, flexibility, people, benefits, discount
Cons
Career paths is probably something that needs reviewing.
The Very Group2019-12-17The Very Group Response
January 3, 2020 – Employer Brand Manager
Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review, it's great to hear you enjoyed the culture and working with the teams here at Shop Direct. We take your point on career paths, it's something we recognise needs more work and so have put some ambitious plans in place to increase internal progression to senior roles over the next few years. Good luck for the future! :-)
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"All talk, no action and negatives swept under the carpet"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at The Very Group full-time for more than 3 years
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Nothing, it's all fake. Some of the people are nice, but no one in power who can change anything
Cons
Honestly the treatment of long serving staff is just abysmal. It's difficult to break down into bullet points how many terrible things I've seen since starting, but a good summary would be "all that glitters ain't gold". They're very clever at hiding how terrible it is for staff who actually work there, in order to being new poor saps in.
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December 13, 2019 – Head of Culture
Thanks for taking the time to write this review, its so disappointing that your experience with us didn't feel reflective of the standards we set ourselves. We care about all the feedback we receive, its really important so that we can continue to look into our colleague experience. If you'd like to share more about your time with us please get in touch on glassdoor@shopdirect.com. Good luck with your next role and company
Continue reading "Great place to work"
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RecommendsNegative OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at The Very Group full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
* Good pay compared to other companies in the region * Onsite gym * Very flexible working conditions
Cons
* Could be a bit more transparent * Over reliance on contractors rather than recruiting perms
The Very Group2019-11-05The Very Group Response
November 14, 2019 – Head of Culture
Thanks for this! Really pleased that you're able to take advantage of our wellbeing offer and that you are liking us enough to give a 5 star rating! It's always our intention to be as transparent as we can - it's so important and thanks for reinforcing that message its something that we'll continue to challenge ourselves on.
Continue reading"Good company and nice people"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI have been working at The Very Group full-time for more than a year
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Good people, friendly environment, benefits and payed holidays are the best ever I've seen.
Cons
Very slow pace, very slow to make any change. Data infrastructure is quite old.
The Very Group2019-11-06The Very Group Response
November 11, 2019 – Head of Data Science & Engineering
Thanks for sharing your feedback. There's definitely more left to work on, including (as you say) the continued upgrade of our data infrastructure. We hope to continue making progress on this, so we can release changes ever faster in the near future.
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"Clarity"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at The Very Group full-time for more than a year
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Everything is laid out in blunt honesty. No need to decipher meaning from actions. Colleagues welcoming and helpful
Cons
Low progression, IT awful can think of nothing else
The Very Group2019-10-02The Very Group Response
October 7, 2019 – Employer Brand Manager
Hi there, thanks for taking the time to leave a review on your few years working here so far. It's really good to hear about the transparency you feel as a colleague here, it's important as a business and as a team that we are up front and clear on what needs to be done. Thanks for being a part of the team, we have an exciting few months ahead and we're glad you're part of that!
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