Avantages
Breakfast is provided. Good summer/Christmas parties. Lovely offices and the location of the Bollington office by the canal is beautiful. A handful of very friendly and helpful individuals especially within admin related positions.
Inconvénients
Note that this review is ONLY regarding PROVE - PCO is operated by a different team entirely. Plans are chopped and changed on a whim according to the mood of the MD, who is a shady and intimidating character who belittles his Senior Management Team. The level of pressure put onto staff at all levels is unhealthy and the company culture is toxic - staff are reprimanded for staying late to get work finished but then the pressure to meet deadlines completely contradicts any opportunity for normal working hours. Majority of the higher levels of staff are made up of graduates who have joined straight from university and been promoted rapidly through the ranks - possibly with no idea that this is not a normal or nice working environment/culture. Having speedily promoted staff up through the ranks, some seem to be a little 'power mad' and not friendly towards new members of the team who were still learning their roles. Outside of these "chosen few" (as a previous review termed it), turnover is very high. There is almost a cult-like attitude that you must be seen to be living and breathing your relatively low paying work, but also enjoying it to the maximum.