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Poor management - Anonymous employee Automata Technologies Employee Review

3.0
May 6, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Good benefits (Spill app, lots of additional leave opportunities) - Dog-friendly offices - Some lovely people - Great location - Decent career progression

Cons

- Too many managers (and lots without management training) - Listening to the wrong people/not loyal to their long-standing staff members - High staff turnover - You’re told to appease difficult members of the team, rather than them being held accountable like they should be - Communication from the top down is severely lacking (leadership team, heads of departments)

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Automata Technologies Response
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Thanks for taking the time to put together this feedback. If you feel like you have the bandwidth, we'd massively welcome more detail on the 'Cons' listed here in order to make sure we're collecting valuable data from the team and turning it into genuine improvements. Were you to take us up on this suggestion you could utilise the 100% anonymous feedback tool in HiBob - 'Your Voice' - more information in the handbook: https://www.notion.so/automatatech/Your-Voice-8f0ff592461d42209e53fc34856df95f

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