Awful - Anonymous employee IRIS Software Group Employee Review

1.0
Nov 29, 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

-The teams on the front line are friendly and always helpful.

Cons

- Training feels like a speedrun with no real education of the products a department supports - Seemed to be an congealment of software businesses with no set practice - The team i worked with had no documentation of existing products so that you dont have any reference material, and seems like you have to bug your colleagues which slows down calls to ask how to resolve an issue for software youve never seen. - Training was poor and was only given a couple of days of training, for a department that has 100s of bits of software for basic processes that accounts for at most 10% of your job. - Manager was not existent only seem them once after starting (stayed for a month). - It feels like your a cog within a cog, within a cog within another cog -The top seems disconnected from the bottom, with a training person coming to train us for a piece of software that was more time consuming and only 5% of the customers for software for this department. - Honestly progression seems slow with TLs being 5 years in the job and manager in 7+ which seems normal but considering the front line job is basically a call centre job where turn over seems high.

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IRIS Software Group Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, although we are surprised and disappointed by your comments. We are proud to run an extensive induction training for our Customer Support team that usually lasts 2-4 weeks, depending on the products. This is delivered by our Customer Service experts who are able to bring the training to life with their own experiences. The training is a blend of customer service, legislation, product and process training with practical activities. There are also opportunities to shadow experienced colleagues, so that your learning journey continues in the role with regular up-skill training. In addition, to support our employees and build their knowledge, we have recently launched a brand-new IRIS help hub, which provides individual help centres for our range of products. This includes 18 help centres which provide information and knowledge articles on the products for both colleagues and customers. Our content design team are continually working with the business to grow the number of help centres available. We are also delighted to provide a variety of routes for progression, from increasing product knowledge as a Customer Analyst, joining management within Customer Services, or moving to our Professional Services, Development, or Product teams. Since the start of 2021, we are proud to have celebrated 45 promotions, role changes, and horizontal moves in Customer Support. For our high performers, we have launched our annual High Potential Programme to provide our employees with opportunities to progress their careers with us, through networking sessions, webinars, and other development activities We are sorry to hear that this was not your experience. If you would like to discuss in more detail, please reach out to Imogen Mitten, your dedicated HR representative. We’re always looking for ways we can be the best we can be, and we would encourage you to contact EmployeeFeedback@iris.co.uk with any further comments. Kind regards, the HR team.

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5.0
Jan 6, 2025
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Pros

I have been with Iris for approximately 5 months and have been incredibly impressed. The people I work with from my peers, leadership (including executive leadership) and my team, are amazing. Building relationships has been easy as most of the employees are open to it, are very collaborative and genuinely want to help! Iris is also focused on equality and ensure we all have a fair opportunity for growth. While we have a lot to do here, it is clear that we are valued.

Cons

As a rapidly growing organization, we have some growing pains and some foundational processes, systems and flow that need to be updated and/or adjusted, but nothing that won't be fixed over time.

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IRIS Software Group Response
1y
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We’re delighted that you are enjoying your time at IRIS and recognise all the fantastic things we do for our employees. We’re proud to be a Great Place To Work™, and we’re committed to ensuring that all our amazing employees can bring their full selves to work, grow their career with us, shape our future as a business, and enjoy meaningful work. We’re always looking for ways we can be the best we can be, and we would welcome any further suggestions. Please speak to your HR representative or leave a comment in our next Peakon survey. Kind regards, the HR team
3.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

Great product and team. Just no focus on US operations.

Cons

Company has no real direction for US operations.

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