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      Unipart Reviews

      3.3

      48% would recommend to a friend

      (422 total reviews)
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      Darren Leigh

      58% approve of CEO

      42% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.5

      Work/Life balance

      3.3

      Diversity and inclusion

      3.2

      Culture and values

      3.0

      Senior management

      3.0

      Career opportunities

      2.9

      Compensation and benefits

      Unipart has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 422 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Unipart employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation and logistics industry (3.5 stars).

      Reviews by job title

      422 reviews
      1.0
      15 Oct 2019

      Unipart Digital - an example of how money can't buy talent

      Development
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      They pay really well, and you don't have to be any good.

      Cons

      Lots of money is being poured into this project, but the results are sparse. The fundamental problem is the person in charge is just inexperienced in people management, product development and basic technology. "Product" struggle to description functionality, and are somewhat defensive, so there is no appetite for change in that area. Infrastructure is very primitive, and no plans to use modern devops - no distrubuted architectures, CI, kubernetes. With all these issues, there is a real sense of elitism (I heard one of the sysadmins describe their team as "some of the brightest minds of a generation", yet there they are, manually creating instances and building each dependancy at the command line. OK - how are you meant to work with that, right?! The developers have limited commercial experience of best practice and modern design patterns for software (think monoliths vs. micro services). Again, very little appetite for change in this area, too. PHP is a prefered language. Combine poor quality product, software architecture and infrastructure with a sense of elitism, and you have a very toxic environment to work in.

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      Unipart Response
      5y
      Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. As you have mentioned, we continue to make a significant commitment to invest in our digital team and associated technologies – we have a start-up philosophy with established company backing. Whilst we always listen to constructive feedback, many of your points are not representative of the values and behaviours we demonstrate here at Unipart. Our digital team benefits from being a small team within a large and established company, tackling problems which have immediate and long-term impacts. Providing an Enterprise Warehouse Management system (WMS) Unipart Digital Enterprise System and Data Science services to our internal and external customers. We work with a range of languages - predominantly Python - and try to adopt the best of both the academic and open-source cultures, having a high-degree of independence, and working on multiple challenging and strategically important projects. We highly value intelligence and curiosity, and welcome people from the Arts and the Sciences; our team includes lawyers, classicists, philosophers, and musicians as well as scientists and engineers and those with no formal training. We recognise that great programmers come from different backgrounds, and therefore the most important aspects are intellectual curiosity, creativity, and the "hacker mind-set”. We absolutely have friends and ex-colleagues working together as our colleagues recommend our team and company as a great place to work. This is reflected in our strong employee engagement scores and regular social activities – with colleagues choosing to spend time together outside of the typical working day. We are a friendly group with great flexibility in working times and locations, a well-stocked kitchen, and a welcoming ethos! With 99.99% infrastructure credibility we offer a robust service to our clients and continue to develop our products and services to lead Unipart in the 4th Industrial Revolution. Once again, we thank you for taking the time to leave a review and wish you well for your future career.
      1.0
      23 Jul 2018

      Worst place I have ever worked!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      They have a car park

      Cons

      I guess i have been lucky in previous jobs, I've enjoyed going in each day and have made life long friends. When I went to work at Unipart, I couldn't believe the way people were treated. There is a culture of bullying and general nastiness from Management which doesn't make the morale in the office pleasant. The systems are old fashioned, it's like they are stuck in the late 80s. You are certainly not encouraged to make friends and you leave at the end of the day feeling like a robot and feeling completely drained I would honestly say it is the worst place I have ever worked. The best thing I did was hand my notice in with no job to go to (something I had never done before, I had a mortgage to pay after all). On the plus side, it made me appreciate what I had before and what I have again now.

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      Unipart Response
      5y
      Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We always recommend discussing any perceived issues with your line manager or local HR partner, so we can work together constructively to improve your experience. We wish you the best in your career ahead.
      1.0
      21 Jul 2018

      low tech, low fun, low respect

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      pays well + remote working

      Cons

      Old technology - (php and query are still very popular) Negativity if you suggest new tech (i.e. in memory databases) Bad project management creates stress when there are no deadlines. Worked on two project - the first was more interested in scrum than good tech, second had no direction at all.

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      Unipart Response
      5y
      Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. Unipart continue to make a significant commitment to invest in our digital team and associated technologies – we have a start-up philosophy with established company backing. Whilst we always listen to constructive feedback, we feel that your points are not representative of the values and behaviours we demonstrate here at Unipart. Our digital team benefits from being a small team within a large and established company, tackling problems which have immediate and long-term impacts. Providing an Enterprise Warehouse Management system (WMS) Unipart Digital Enterprise System and Data Science services to our internal and external customers. We work with a range of languages - predominantly Python - and try to adopt the best of both the academic and open-source cultures, having a high-degree of independence, and working on multiple challenging and strategically important projects. We highly value intelligence and curiosity, and welcome people from the Arts and the Sciences; our team includes lawyers, classicists, philosophers, and musicians as well as scientists and engineers and those with no formal training. We recognise that great programmers come from different backgrounds, and therefore the most important aspects are intellectual curiosity, creativity, and the "hacker mind-set”. We have friends and ex-colleagues working together as our colleagues recommend our team and company as a great place to work. This is reflected in our strong employee engagement scores and regular social activities – with colleagues choosing to spend time together outside of the typical working day. We are a friendly group with great flexibility in working times and locations, a well-stocked kitchen, and a welcoming ethos! With 99.99% infrastructure credibility we offer a robust service to our clients and continue to develop our products and services to lead Unipart in the 4th Industrial Revolution. Once again, we thank you for taking the time to leave a review and wish you well for your future career.
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