Great potential, lacking execution - Anonymous employee NEXTDC Employee Review

2.0
Mar 12, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

NextDC is a great company that's going places. There's never a dull moment and plenty to learn. The rapid expansion makes it an exciting place to work. There is great opportunities for training, either through the company or heavily discounted. Free coffee :) and offstreet parking. There are awesome people across all the teams making the best of the situation. Always someone around with a smile, and the quality of the end result for the customers is great despite of what is below. You can have a great sense of accomplishment with your work, seeing the results in realtime. Interaction with customers are great, good working relationships can be easily forged.

Cons

The company has an ingrained lack of care for their staff. They constantly attack the fruits of this culture and never the roots. For example in the last week there has been a blatant request (instruction?) for management to write reviews and to push staff to post reviews here and on seek (as seen by the two posts on the 11/3 the day the request was made). Rather than addressing the issues of staff on these sites they're attempting to alter the rating because it didn't stack up to what THEY consider the company to be performing as. Pay for the positions is definitely on the low end of the spectrum. Staff turnover is remarkably high, and there is virtually zero attempt to retain good people. The high staff turnover in turn leads to higher stress on those that remain as they're constantly training new people. HR has highly questionable effectiveness. For example a blatantly abusive manager was left to continue for an excessive amount of time, and higher management did their best to protect that manager even with dozens of incidents and reports from both staff and customers. There is virtually no social circles or culture unless you make it happen yourself.

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3.0
Jun 28, 2026
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Pros

Great bunch of people, which made my tenure at NEXTDC very memorable. I enjoyed my time at NEXTDC, great business with some amazing people.

Cons

There’s a noticeable culture of micromanagement, and at times it feels like the organisation’s stated values aren’t consistently reflected in day-to-day actions. This disconnect can make it difficult for people to fully trust and engage with those values. There also seems to be a strong silo mentality across teams, which limits collaboration and makes it harder to deliver the best outcomes for customers. It feels like the current exec leadership approach hasn’t quite kept pace with where the organisation is headed. NEXTDC is in a great position to do some truly exciting things, but exec leadership practices are becoming a key constraint on that potential. For real and lasting change to happen, it needs to start at the top. Without strong, visible leadership driving a more modern, growth-focused mindset, it’s challenging for meaningful change to take hold across the organisation. This may also require a refresh at the CXO level to ensure the organisation has the leadership capability and perspective needed to deliver the change required.

5.0
May 14, 2026
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Pros

- Great work life balance - Supportive and knowledgeable seniors - Variety of interesting engineering tasks - Real opportunity for career progression

Cons

- Limited exposure to some relevant software

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