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Elektron Technology

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Greedy, incompetent management have sucked the life out of it - Engineer Elektron Technology Employee Review

1.0
Aug 28, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Some good people. Staff turnover is so high, you can get seniority just by sticking around for a year or two. Free coffee and fruit.

Cons

Management think employees are simply interchangeable cogs which can be used and thrown away. They simply don't value skills. Best example? A dozen of us were just TUPE'd across when part of the business was sold. Did we get a leaving do? Did we even get a leaving card saying thank you for work over the last 6 years? Did they even gather everyone round in the office to say goodbye to us? Nope. All the other parts of the business have also been packaged up, ready for sale. Initially Elektron sold businesses which weren't part of its "core business". Now it doesn't actually look like there's a core business at all, except for selling it all and getting cash back to the board. This can only be a good thing for all the various bits, because at least then they might be run competently. There are good people here. The trouble is that mostly they don't stay long, because as soon as they get senior enough to realise how the place works, they tend to leave. No parking on site either - 20 minute walk from the Park and Ride carpark.

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5.0
Nov 13, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good people, good products, and opportunity for advancement.

Cons

Don't have any cons to report.

1.0
Sep 30, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Modern office. I love looking at my screen and plan how I can get out of here.

Cons

Total and complete mismanagement from the CEO down to the middle management. Every manifestation of mismanagement you can conceive is performed here. This company should be thriving instead it is just surviving (with the occasional dodgy accountancy practice helping to bolster figures). CEO and chairman are famous amongst shareholders for their ability to acquire and destroy perfectly good companies. CEO is immature and lacking the skills to manage any company. The Cambridge management team are some of the most useless and out of touch charlatans I have worked with. I would like to say it has been a pleasure to work here...but I would be lying. I have no confidence in the Cambridge management team making any sensible decisions. If you listen in the office you can hear people regularly mock the management (which shows every one else is thinking the same)

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