WLT Group Reviews

There are so many things wrong with this company, I could right a book on it. I was there long before Williams Lea took over and it is no different to how it was before, except for the impending doom of redundancies now hanging over everyone's heads. The place is run by what seems to be a bunch of wide boys, possibly former gangsters, who only look out for themselves and wouldn't think twice about running you over if you got in their way. The management do not do a thing to improve this company, the only thing they are concerned with is getting work out the door on time. This is made very difficult due to poor, dated equipment, software that doesn't work properly, and that over complicates the most simplest of jobs. To make things worse, the management are constantly moaning about the state of the company, which is terrible for morale, but they do not do anything about it, just shout and scream. Most of the staff there have totally lost any enthusiasm, I think on average it takes about a month. This leads to sloppy or lazy performance. The building (Clerkenwell) is a state, the toilets are always filthy, or blocked. No one makes any effort to clean after themselves in the kitchen. The redundancy situation was an absolute shambles, and probably illegal. They, the management and HR basically try to get away with paying you as little as possible, you really need to keep your wits about you. As for pay, the whole 6 years I was there I didn't have one review, and therefore not one pay rise. Not even a cost of living rise. I was told I should ask, but I felt I would just get laughed at. There is a constant turn over as one by one staff leave because they have had enough.

Was a great place to work until they laid off most of their production staff and outsourced most of the work to India. Remaining staff who managed to keep their jobs ended up overworked and signed off sick with stress. Managers were bullies and add to the sickness rates.