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    Travis Perkins Reviews

    Updated 5 November 2018
    154 reviews

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    Pros

    • "Work life balance, investment in colleagues, great culture that is open, collaborative and non hierarchical" (in 8 reviews)

    • "Good people who are always willing to help" (in 7 reviews)

    Cons

    • "long hours, poor structuring of breaks - sometimes found myself working 7-5 non-stop" (in 8 reviews)

    • "office a bit shabby, senior management presentations a bit overly evangelical" (in 7 reviews)

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    1. "Recruiter"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Travis Perkins full-time

      Pros

      Forward thinking business, genuinely put's it's customers first and care about employees.

      Cons

      No cons to discuss at present.

    2. "Toolhire manager"

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      Current Employee - Toolhire Manager in London, England
      Current Employee - Toolhire Manager in London, England
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Travis Perkins full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Money isn’t great nor bad and environment

      Cons

      Workload and hours, pay structure is appalling

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    3. "Trustworthy company"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      knocked a star off for offshoring my job but they did everything to offer redeployment and were supportive and gave a generous payout

      Cons

      office a bit shabby, senior management presentations a bit overly evangelical

    4. "Good place to work"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Travis Perkins full-time

      Pros

      Fun and interesting job, progression opportunities

      Cons

      Salary, working hours, level of pressure

    5. "Has potential to be a great place to work"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Northampton, England
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Northampton, England
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Travis Perkins full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      good flexible working arrangements for office staff

      Cons

      Disorganised and disjointed across the whole organisation
      Leadership procrastination and high churn of executives
      No investment in technology or personal development
      Poor communication
      Old fashioned 1960's office buildings and facilities leaves you feeling slightly depressed every day

      Advice to Management

      urgently needs modernising: the buildings, culture and mindset

    6. "Head office - great place to work"

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      Former Employee - Paralegal in Northampton, England
      Former Employee - Paralegal in Northampton, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Travis Perkins full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Big company with a family feel, great benefits, vouchers for good work, sharesave, lovely colleagues, excellent pension

      Cons

      Flexible working not encouraged, big variances in employee experience depending on department

      Advice to Management

      Embrace part-time and flexible working between the most junior and most senior grades

    7. "Insecurity leads to morale breakdown"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Travis Perkins full-time

      Pros

      A wealth of experience to be gained in a broad and interesting environment.

      Offers great prospects if you are in the right tech and role.

      Cons

      Huge disparity in salaries, little scope to improve them once you are in.

      Long term chaos due to a constant churn of senior IT staff members (6 or 7 CIOs in as many years) and the implementation of a huge IT transformation project, whilst re-divisionalising, marketising and outsourcing IT services.

      Advice to Management

      It is probably too late to rescue the morale of the current IT department but some stability must be attained soon.

    8. "Great team in Barnstaple"

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      Current Employee - Software Engineer in Barnstaple, England
      Current Employee - Software Engineer in Barnstaple, England
      Recommends
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Travis Perkins full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Well rewarded for area. Good opportunities

      Cons

      Direction and management change frequently

      Advice to Management

      Look higher in the organisation for cost savings

    9. "Good place to start"

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      Current Employee - Project Manager in Northampton, England
      Current Employee - Project Manager in Northampton, England
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Travis Perkins full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Family culture
      Great place to grow, learn and make mistakes
      Good benefits

      Cons

      Salary need restructuring
      Too many higher management not many people that actually do the job

    10. Helpful (1)

      "Senior Manager/director"

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      Current Employee - Manager in Northampton, England
      Current Employee - Manager in Northampton, England
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Travis Perkins full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Not many. The company does have scale and the Screwfix part of the business does does work well. You can enjoy some reasonable staff discounts. There are some very capable people in the business.

      Cons

      The business presents strong corporate beliefs, but lives none of them, you are expected to work very hard and long hours, with limited gratitude. Travis Perkins has become to big and complex with very limited investment, so many of the sites are run down and the IT systems are 20/30 years out of date. When I joined I was given a laptop that must have been 10 years old and did not work, it took weeks to replace..

      It is a very male dominated environment with little diversity and females in senior roles are very limited, much to the determent to the business. It looks and feels like an out of date boys club
      I would not recommend TP as an employer.

      Advice to Management

      Update the business, invest in systems and people and focus on diversity, I see a lot of good people come and go very quickly, you need to retain talent.

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