Avantages
- Talented, (mostly) friendly & helpful workforce. - Recognisable brand for future career progression - Good annual leave entitlement. - OK core hours - Opportunity for Engineers to travel to the Far East. - Nice office space, good testing facilities. - Handled COVID office situation effectively, prioritising employee health and displaying some flexibility. - Above average sickness benefits
Inconvénients
- Design & engineering salaries are poor, minimal pension contributions & no bonus structure. - No paid overtime (but expectation to work additional hours) - A culture of hiring a significant amount of external consultancies & consultants being hired, ignoring the in-house experience, demoralising the work force. - No formal payment structure, a persistent habit of underpaying those 'fortunate' enough to progress within the company. Pay disparity is massive, and being at the positive end of the scale was seemingly based on luck, ability to pester & persuade. - Agonisingly slow project development time due to prohibitive processes & unneccessary bureaucracy. - Presenting the same presentations, producing & maintaining written documentation & meeting-after-meeting make up the majority of a working day, not providing the most nurturing environment for product development. - Poor, aged equipment & prototyping facilities in comparison to other companies, especially for a company of Morphy Richards size. - Office politics often drive project direction rather than consumer needs, historically leading to White Elephants elephants. - During my time at the company, some management roles were held by people who were not qualified, experienced or skilled enough to warrant their position. "I don't always know the answers, but if you give an answer with enough confidence people will just think that it's correct" - Paraphrased 'advice' provided to me by a member of management. - Ability to talk confidently is valued as THE most valuable skill set, above actually being competent at your role. - Comically poor handling of recent restructuring process, loosing a lot of skilled staff, subsequently needing to rehire to fill positions, likely offsetting much financial benefit, whilst losing decades of experience. - Poor communication from the top, although vague, uninformative updates about future plans are common - which is deemed sufficient and constitutes good communication.