What a waste of time - Windows Engineer UKFast Employee Review

2.0
Dec 1, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people I worked with where amazing and we all got on. you have a great working environment and a money does get spent on you.

Cons

If you do not pretend like ukfast is perfect or if you have any issues and you voice them you are imminently put in a bad light by senior management who do not really know what is going on at the bottom level of the company because they are in a dream land. some employees I worked with would have bad work ethic and would play video games in work time instead of working and these where the people responsible for my training. any attention is bad attention in ukfast for employees. I was dismissed and told that my Attention to detail wasn't good enough and was let go with a weeks notice, the meeting was not arrange and I had no idea that I was going to get axed on that day. It was completely out of the blue for me as I was told many of times that I was doing really well by other employees and other head of departments. The money spent on slides and drinks would be better in the pockets of employees and not the image of the company.

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3.0
Sep 21, 2024
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Pros

Culture on the tech side is quite good. Free drinks at the bar. If you wanted, you could probably stay a long time here if you were happy as you are.

Cons

Non-tech teams were extremely cliquey and were incredibly target-driven, resulting in lots of missold systems totally inappropriate for customers. They are also very reluctant to talk to the engineers so these issues aren't ever corrected. Limited progression opportunities despite their advertising - the certificates that are paid for is true (as long as you continue working there another 12 months), but getting them approved can take a long time, if ever, as they seem to only approve the cheaper certificates and make you very slowly build up, rather than going something more appropriate for your level of competence.

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2.0
Aug 29, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great, friendly people for the most part. Made some good friends in my time at the company. Onsite gym, onsite bar, beer friday (don't know if this still happens)

Cons

Terrible pay, bad tech stack, no clear progression routes

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