Lots of promise but did not live up to expectations - Anonymous employee Contentive Employee Review

2.0
Jan 10, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

• Exciting time to be working across HR, digital, transformation and disruptive technologies • Big vision outlook with the promise of investment and growth • Young and dynamic team with lots of good ideas

Cons

• Lack of leadership, strategy and communication • Strategy and goal posts changed weekly and not based on achievements which made it difficult to hit objectives and expectations • A number of companies acquired in quick session without understanding the businesses or how to manage them • A lot of senior people (some really good poached from competitors) hired in a short period of time but without a realistic business strategy to support the overheads • Most of the good talent, new and old, now gone – with big layoffs first half of last year and others leaving of own volition shortly after

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Hard to think of any - the only positive thing about working here were the people but now most of those are gone.

Cons

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