Tungsten is a dazzling display of ineptitude with a sprinkling of incompetence. A political cesspit of backstabbing, nonsense, and brown-nosing in a rodent-infested office. If Carlsberg made e-invoicing companies, they had absolutely no involvement with this one.
There are no pens, no jugs for water, there's no access to paper, no pedestals, you can't print anything. The desks are three feet wide. No WFH policy. The labor turnover is so high it's not really worth getting to know anyone, not that there are any social events to speak of.
Tungsten is a nasty insidious little company. A penny pinching, pound poor, embarrassment to the city. Most of the positive reviews here were fabricated by a member of the marketing department before they were fired (for updating the current CEO's biography hmmm).
Frankly, I have been nothing but amazed by the companies' absolute mismanagement of funds and time over the last few years. I am wondering who has paid for it all. Shareholders? A 92% drop in share price from 5 years ago? What does Odey see in Tungsten?
Some employees hold positions whereby they simply just don't possess the necessary skills. Fortunately, to the benefit of the company, the CEO has swung his axe around cutting some of the old, no doubt overpaid staff, of course giving a direct family member a job in the process... Is that a conflict of interest? The CTO left, the whole tech team disbanded... hardly FinTECH is it then? Despite the axe swinging, some highly questionable individuals still remain. Absolutely bamboozling. In fact, there's been so much coming and going, and sacking and what with the 'rona it's actually hard to know who still works at Tungsten.
Work wise in the now-defunct technology team there was zero accountability and minimal direction. Projects were always rushed live before they were ready/fully tested because of imaginary deadlines and of course 'AGILE'! This always led to errors and rollbacks. And then people flapped around and wondering what went wrong. Tungsten has always tried to do far too much at one time and therefore it never really achieves anything worthwhile, it's just perpetually mediocre and will continue to be so.
To summarise then excluding senior management roles... Tungsten neither has the appeal of a large company nor the excitement of start-up. It's just meh, at best a mediocre gravy train, with a CEO suffering from insane delusions of grandeur. The company is most likely traveling towards bankruptcy or that 'road to £100 million' because the CEO worked at Dell once, Alllwight. Avoid unless absolutely desperate for cash. 2/10
p.s. No axe to grind here, just saying it how it is - thanks for all the money. Best of luck. You're really, really going to need it.
