Pros
Having read a number of reviews, I have to say I agree with a number of them. I started work at CC as an SDM and at the time Managed Services was in its infancy. I have worked with a number of people I respect and have assisted me in my career path. However, you do have to use your initiative to move around and speak to people about opportunities. I had a number of different roles that built up my exposure and understanding of various different technologies. Being a non-techie, this helped enormously. Unless you are in an Ops role, you are allowed to get on with the job rather than have someone sitting on your shoulder
Cons
There are a few, unfortunately! :-( When I started the salary was good, but you will only get punitive pay rises and what will upset you is when someone comes in at a peer level or higher, who may have the same skills, or less, than you and do not know the company and their salary is £5k or more than yours. To address this, you have to move around. Unfortunately, some management think it is a badge of honour, or like me are naïve, to keep any salary increase to a minimum. The normal mantra is, "they won't sign off any more than 5%". This is rubbish! I fell out with a Manager, who I respect, for about a week when I wanted to transfer someone into my team and didn't think it would be approved because of the 5% mantra. To transfer them would have been about a 15% increase. He told me that as long as it was within the banding, it would be approved. Guess what, I was able to transfer the individual because the 5% is a myth, dependent on the manager you are working for. I agree that quite often you will see people who should not be doing a role get promotion because of who they know, not what they know. Part of the reason why I left was because I could see no further career progression with a salary to commensurate. Why take on more work with little or no reward. The comments regarding Mike's Friday e-mail made me chuckle. Whilst I appreciate Mike will entertain Customers at a top restaurant and I would entertain at the local, they were, on occasions, patronising. But, CC is looking quite healthy at the moment.
