Great culture - Anonymous Beauhurst Employee Review

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We’re really glad that what’s best about Beauhurst — our people, our culture, the genuine talent we hire — clearly came through in your experience. We do, however, want to respond to the rest of your review as a number of your points are factually inaccurate. Regarding HR policies, our employee handbook, which everyone has had full access to on Notion for years now, covers each of the policies you’ve mentioned (anti-harassment and bullying, anti bribery and corruption, security). The suggestion these don’t exist is simply incorrect. On the comment about working from trains and the tube, working on a train is something people regularly do at most companies and we encourage it where appropriate. We have never asked anyone to work from the tube. As you would have been able to see on the Beauhurst platform itself during your time with us, we have been profitable in the past. More recently we have chosen to invest into international expension at the expense of profitability. This is a normal choice for a company to make. With regard to your comments on salaries, we aim to pay the market rate for each specific role, which we determine through a variety at annual pay reviews. Our high employee retention rate compared to similar businesses, plus our extremely high applicant to option position ratio, imply that we are getting this balance right. Regarding progressions, management is not the only progression route. There are several non-management paths to progression and senior “individual contributor” positions exist in almost every team. We put a lot of thought into making sure promotion paths work for the individual. The claim that promotions “usually” come without a pay rise is also simply not the case case. We do ask employees to take on new responsibilities in their current position from time to time as business needs change – most enjoy the challenge and flexibility, and we ensure we reward this in-role wherever appropriate. Promotions are a larger step up in responsibility and in almost every case are accompanied by a pay rise. On management, we intentionally give employees the chance to step into management and learn new skills early in their career, should that be of interest to them. We think that’s a strength, not a weakness. We’d rather create those opportunities internally than prevent ambitious employees from managing others, just because they may not have done it before. Every experienced manager started somewhere! Where employees are promoted into management positions, we make sure to provide thorough management training and support from more experienced managers. We acknowledge that we can always do more in this area, and continue to invest in increased training and support for new managers. Finally, we don’t apply the label ‘startup’ to ourselves – and haven’t for a while. We are not a startup, we are an established, ambitious, business. Once again, thank you for the warmth in your words about our people and atmosphere. We hope you can appreciate why we have tried to set the factual record straight for others reading this.