This has moved from a tech unicorn, breaking the mould and leading the way as a values based business that attracted people. The best in the business world wished to be here as honesty, vulnerability and transparency was encouraged. Not any more. Now it is changing to be a run of the mill tech company, like every other. At this stage the only way to compete for great people is to pay the best as people are there only for the money. Here they are losing. They are paying low to start and now people have not had a wage rise in many cases for a number of years. Once people would do anything to help team green succeed, like during the pandemic, people took huge wage cuts to ensure we got through and now those very same people are being threatened with, and have been, sacked on the spot for not wishing to sign an enforced contract that enforces that you sign away the working time directive. This dirty work was carried out by the CEO Matthew Scullion himself with late night, unannounced phone calls. The atmosphere is now horrible, engineers are quitting at an alarming rate, whole departments are empty, all others are scrambling to get as much work as they can done just to keep their roles alive, many late hours without thanks or reward. Promotions are fixed numbers instead of reward based, you can hit every point on an agreed career progression chart, two levels above your present role and still lose out because the quota has been hit for this round and bear in mind it can be like this for years in some cases with people working at senior level stuck at graduate level and pay. Pay, supposed to be at 75 percentile. It's nowhere near. The industry standard rate they have calculated is hidden and when pushed, it is way below the real one by all standards published in the industry. So, what has happened. This company got to be a world leader and a unicorn statue due to some incredible people and hard work. Most important were the people. One person created the foundations of ensuring the vision that the founders had would resonate throughout and continue as the business grew. Vicki M, created people ops, not HR as she believed we were people and not resources. Andrew T, grew the engineering team and enforced that we work and maintain the values. Things changed as the place grew but the values remained. So, all change, first we brought in a new engineering lead. This guy had been there before!!! Andrew was asked to step aside (obviously he left after trying to put up with the new ways but these were across the grain and not right). Sometimes businesses have to be strong and make some difficult decisions but the like ' profits are more important that values, if you don't like it you don't need to work here, in America we wouldn't talk with you we would just tell you or sack you, etc'. This smashed all goodwill but people still believed in the CEO. We had other start that bullied people and called them names, telling seniors that they were useless. These people just left as they were really good and then he brought in his own friends and people who would cover his inabilities. This continued to managers. The whole of the company feeling had disappeared but people still believed in the CEO. Now the whole of the People Ops department was broken when Vicki was treated as rudely as others and she left. The whole foundations that the company had been built upon were gone with the personnel that had left, especially those in the senior leadership team. We now had HR lead by what was meant to be a leader in this field but a quick look at their career history shows they have no history of leading a world leading, value based business. No taking the company to the next stage nor increasing a business. This person has no understanding of UK HR law most importantly. So within 18 months, we moved from a world leading, value based business with people bending over backwards to take it to the next level and loved the people and company to a hollow shell. Now, if that goodwill remained and the new shiny offices opened and people were asked to attend with a carrot approach, people would be there. No, they enforced attendance and threatened those that did not agree due to many reasons but the really kicker was that over 50 members of the workforce signed a grievance against the enforced contract change (around 100-130 were asked to sign the new contracts). The company refused to recognise the grievance and then tried many bully tactics with the executives having unannounced meetings with those that signed the grievance. Eventually the straw that broke the camel's back was the CEO on the spot sacking a person who wouldn't sign. This then made people sign but this isn't a win for the business as at this point there have been 30% of those that signed the grievance took new jobs. Now this isn't the end of the story. We have no wage rises, no promotions, no back filling, people asked to pick up this slack and all the while, HR refuse to discuss the issues, send out propaganda that pretends like there isn't any issue, that values are the essence of the business. It is sickening to hear the CEO make company announcements and in videos and conferences say that the values are the most important and it's the team that is the heart of Matillion. The workforce just scoff now. Transformative, yes for sure but no one is on board. The company is in disarray and I hope someone can get a grip and put the boat back on course but it is going to take a massive change to get the workforce back. Of course, the company has also (no one keeps secrets) asked some to leave positive reviews in return for reward (you need a part time role while at uni?) and sales people sell don't they, odd that as twice they have had massive layoffs in USA to they months later start bringing them back. Some companies go to China to save money, some use US labour due to the lax labour laws to drop and hire at will. We were flying high until the leaders became too cocky and started firing their guns in random locations for fun. Well the balloon has a lot of holes in and we accidentally shot the pilots and brought in clowns. Those that are here are quick buck makers and not here for the company's health. I have so much more but all I would say, until this company has had a massive overhaul of leadership, stay well clear.
