DON'T DO IT - Anonymous employee Switched-On Employee Review

1.0
Mar 11, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Absolutely nothing - other than a pay check every month. Even then it's still hard to motivate yourself to do something

Cons

Ohh where do i start Zero management skills. Zero communication skills. Absolutely no idea about software. development. The place is full of distractions. For example their dogs are in the office barking every second. (Good somedays) Over promise, under deliver in every single case for every single client. Very unhealthy working environment, people are not productive and literally have no idea what they are doing. Progression? Personal development? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Training and development... Whats that.... ? We got no training tips on how to improve. Every time they scheduled one in, it'llget pushed back and to be honest never get done. Even if they did run a training program. They had no idea how to explain it. It being the system. Absolutely clueless. Take a good look at yourselfs. This place is a joke.

Switched-On Response
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I am sorry your short time at switched-on was not a happy one. Some times people and companies are just not a good fit, and we try to learn from our mistakes. I am sorry you did not feel able to raise your concerns or unhappiness with your team leaders or upper management. Being anonymous and not listing your role makes it hard to know where to start but you do mention software development so I guess you worked in the Dev team. Since 2017 we have taken on an entirely new recruiting and onboarding process which takes into account cultural and social differences as well as a range of qualitative and quantitive measure for determining if we can serve our candidates and their suitability to our environment. Our job ads and recruitment process would have informed you that we allow dogs in the office. With regard to your claim that switched-on has no idea about software development, you might be surprised to learn we were shortlisted by the AFR as one of Australia's most innovative companies this year! Thanks again for taking the time to write a review, I wish you a successful career and thank you for your contribution.

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