- Poor / no joining bonus for grads in comparison to other consultancies.
- Salary only vaguely aligned to competitors.
- Role applied for is in no way the role you receive, it's then down to you to fight it out to get the role/position you want.
- Company lacks cohesive direction - one branch is trying to solve problems with pre-packaged software, another as a consultancy. Both are bidding with the same clients.
- Company is trading on the former reputation of Detica, the only remaining Deticans are either leaving, or are embedded in middle management with grossly inflated salaries for their rank/role and show no sign of leaving.
- Recruitment standard has plummeted, recruitment now happy to take any university, any discipline, and down to a 2:2, even a 3rd in some instances.
- Company is modelling after other grad-heavy consultancies, without offering reputation or financial incentive in line with their competition, hence the general standard of grads are low. Having been recruited as a grad just over a year ago, I have seen this standard drop even in my tenure.
- Company sells itself during recruitment as being friendly, and all about their people and engagement, in my experience HR are impossible to get hold of when you have a query, and are happy to use the idea of 'take it or leave it, we can find more grads' - I'd expect this from the big four, but not a company selling their friendliness.
- Ops managers work purely to their targets of bums on seats, not in collaboration with where you want to go.
- Most grads I speak to have an escape plan in place, are unhappy, and are biding their time until a credible 18-24 months have expired so their CV doesn't look poor.
- Overall movement to SIAM and service management contracts as they're less risk, and more profit - ultimately boring projects to work on, and not what the company sell during recruitment.
- Virtually zero recompense for holding DV, again in comparison to major competitions.
- Everybody is a 'consultant', the mind boggling approach to ego stroking on new recruits leaves everyone thinking their job is a 'consultant'.
