Great Development Team, Poor Business Leadership - Senior Software Developer FundsLibrary Employee Review

I feel generally very motivated and engaged working here. There is a clear strategy, autonomy within delivery to execute on it and a relaxed and fun workplace with regular team building/social events. The technical and solutions teams work well together, the roadmap exposes most people to new/cutting edge tech regularly and the company has a very good standing in the industry amongst well regarded clients. I’m surprised by the recent negative reviews and feel that they are unfair and pernicious. It’s clear the company has gone through a lot of change in the last few years. None of these changes appear to me anything apart from the normal steps needed to improve performance, nurture growth and safeguard the business for future growth. A small minority of staff seem to have taken issue with some of it and left as a result. It’s certainly not a place that lacks direction, nor is there “toxic” atmosphere; that couldn’t be farther from the truth!

Having a higher amount of regulation with the parent company sometimes causes FundsLibrary to be less agile in its own right. Sometimes - as with most digital solutions firms - the projects are more sales-orientated than product driven but this is continuing to change for the better over time.

Part of Hargreaves and Lansdown but it's a tenuous link that is being actively cut. Some great fellow workers but the good ones never stay long.

Very toxic environment. Run by a tyrant who will not listen to reason and actively mark you as a troublemaker. Constantly changes his mind about what should be worked on and blames staff for not meeting deadlines. Mentally very taxing and there is often staff absence due to 'burn-out'. Once he has made up his mind about something based on his fickle belief system, he cannot be convinced otherwise. He's successfully made every woman in the company cry at some point over the last year. No level of profit is good enough to be thankful or kind to staff.