Utilize Reviews

4.3

90% would recommend to a friend

(57 total reviews)

Warren Davies

92% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

Utilize has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 57 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Utilize employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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57 reviews
1.0
25 Apr 2018

IT Burn Out

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Pros

Free lunch once a month

Cons

The workload is simply unrelenting, you're expected to pick up 20+ tickets a day while working on a backload of 30 average. The "team leaders" feel like they give you no actual support or help, they are only there to assign calls out and bark at you to answer the phone. We are always encouraged to just escalate our tickets ASAP to get longer ones off of our desk to keep numbers down on our team so we never get the chance to really learn or progress. Feels like we are always understaffed and could do with double the amount of people for the constant tide of new customers. My immediate manager was good, but it feels like they struggle to hire new people before existing staff get burnt out due to the workload and leave. The team at its core are good but everyone feels very stressed constantly due to the pressure to "meet KPI" while also having to firefight your existing queue of calls based on which customer complains the loudest. There is a clear divide in happiness levels depending on what section of the company you work for, some of the extremely positive reviews listed almost sound like direct word for word quotes out of the company handbook. The company does put on fancy events for Christmas each year now (on weekends) but you have to attend under threat of discipliniary if you dont, even so far as all staff being given new contracts to ensure its included.

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Utilize Response
8y
Wow that is horrible to read. We are really sorry you feel that way. As an existing employee we would always rather discuss these frustrations face to face before getting to this stage, but understand why you might not want to. Using times like the senior management open door sessions (the last one on the 24th April), regular team meetings, one to one appraisals, daily huddles and regular team events (EG weekly football, team building days, meals out etc) to feedback these feelings would always be encouraged. Or simply grabbing someone for a chat (this is a key reason why we have all tiers of management sat in the open office and not locked away in ivory towers). We are sorry you feel this is a last resort and you can’t approach any of the management team using one of those methods but thank you for the feedback none-the-less. It is better than being silent and not giving us the opportunity to address this perception and the points you raise. As always we are committed to creating a great place to work (and thereby a great place to be a customer) and we will work with you to ensure this perception is turned around. We look forward to resolving all these points together as a team.
1.0
15 Aug 2018

Not a nice place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some clever people in 1st and 2nd line but too busy

Cons

Homophobia and sexism considered 'banter' and it might as well be encouraged Far too busy to learn anything worthwhile High number of people sick every day Fire people who make mistakes instead of supporting them

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Utilize Response
7y
Thanks for your feedback and we deeply regret things didn’t work out between us, especially based on your comments. Please be rest assured they are being taken very seriously. Embracing diversity and being non-discriminatory is built into our culture and documented in our latest staff handbook and DNA for success document in detail. Documentation and writing this down is one thing but it is absolutely paramount this is upheld and is working practice in reality. It is imperative our management teams are aware if there are areas within the business this is not apparent. On the training front we invest heavily in our training programmes, especially on our product / technical stack; so much so we have just been awarded another Microsoft Gold accreditation as a direct result. We always try to map individual training goals to that of the company and (where relevant) our technical portfolio, but do recognise there are occasions these don't necessarily align. Our staff retention rates (average 7 years) also highlight that we focus heavily on supporting our staff both through difficult times personally, professionally and even during extended periods of sickness. We are therefore sorry you feel these elements were not acknowledged in your case. We would welcome a conversation to discuss all your comments in more detail. You can help us initiate that by dropping us a line at hr@utilize.co.uk where your identity will be kept confidential (only our HR team will see this). Otherwise you have our assurance this has been raised with all the management teams here at Utilize and we wish you the best of luck for the future.
1.0
19 Apr 2018

Terrible Place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free meal once a month.

Cons

Too many to state all, its an I.T sweatshop of the worse kind with bullying line managers desperate to raise call stats. I can guess where the good reviews are coming from and I don't believe its the staff.

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Utilize Response
8y
Thanks for your feedback. We are sorry things didn’t work out between us. We don’t always get things right but an average staff retention of over 7 years means we generally do, especially in this industry. If you can let us know where we are going wrong we are certain your constructive feedback can help others who are in a similar position. You can do that by dropping us a line at feedback@utilize.co.uk. Best of luck for the future.
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