HR continues to post fake positive reviews - Avis employé Director Octopus

1,0
8 sept. 2018
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This point has been made before but it is worth repeating. Many of the positive reviews on this site are too good to be true

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The number of messages headed "a great place to work" is odd. In the last year or so, I counted 6 posts with that title - 22 May 2017, 5 July 2017, 20 April 2018, 11 May 2018, 9 June 2018, 18 June 2018. HR is running out of ideas to artificially boost ratings on this site. I also counted 5 positive reviews on the same day - 20 April 2018. Very dodgy. My advice to prospective candidates is not to believe these fawning comments.

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Réponse de Octopus
7y
At Octopus we openly, actively and regularly encourage all of our employees to provide feedback to one another, whether it’s positive or areas that people can improve on. This is true of management too who actively invite employees to provide feedback on what’s working well for the group and what’s not. We also actively encourage people who work at Octopus to talk about their experience on Glassdoor to help people understand what it’s like working within the Octopus Group. Feedback is a fundamental part of our culture, which everyone at the company contributes to, and we passionately believe that every single employee should have the opportunity to be listened to and bring new ideas. Many of our employees choose to do this and we recognise that this is an increasingly important forum for people to get an understanding of the company. As disappointing as it is when people write negative reviews, we want to encourage people’s feedback so we can continue to work hard to make Octopus a great place to work. As ever, we would encourage anyone with any questions or concerns, or suggestions on how we can improve things, to speak to a member of the management team or their line manager.

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5,0
14 oct. 2021
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Everything here is great in my opinion

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There are no cons at all.

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8 févr. 2019
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Some great, likeminded people working there. Good social programmes

Inconvénients

Poor middle management, many of whom lack basic people skills let alone leadership quality. Numbers driven and uninspirational. Toxic gossip environment, reminded me of a school playground full of adolescent teenagers. I personally witnessed a culture of victimisation and bullying, forcing a number of highly talented people to leave the company. The company is full of politics, getting the right people on your side by any means whether it's lying or shamelessly brown nosing is key to progression. A number of high profile senior leaders brought into the company, only to leave 6-9 months later with litter to no explanation. A real concern. Very little racial diversity. Desperately trying to be a Fintech company and failing, most of the tech within large part of the organisation is backward and not fit for purpose. Work life balance non existent, it's frowned upon if you leave on time.

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Réponse de Octopus
7y
Thanks very much for taking the time to post a review. We’re really pleased to hear that you enjoyed working with the colleagues in your team and that you benefited from the wide range of social programmes we provide. We know that a highly competitive, target-driven environment is not for everyone. But we don’t agree that work-life balance at Octopus is non-existent - we actively encourage and promote flexible working and your manager would have supported your request for flexible working had it been raised with them at the time. We know staff turnover has been high in the past and we understand why this was a concern to you. With a business model like ours, change is going to be inevitable. Without change we can’t develop and progress. In January this year, we significantly restructured the business, appointing a new CEO for Octopus Investments and a new CIO. We share your concerns over technology and we are working hard to remedy this. We have also now appointed a new Chief Technology Officer and we’re excited to see how our infrastructure will improve as a result. We’ve invested millions in the latest tech already and have plans to make additional investments in the future. We’re sorry that you have not always enjoyed the time that you spent working with us, but we genuinely wish you all the very best for the future and hope that you’ve now found somewhere to work that suits you better.
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