Toxic work culture
Toxic work culture
Interesting work, big company, huge breadth of things to do.
Employees are resources. There is no moral budget, no inter-office travel, a horrible performance rating system, and it's toxic and political. There's no budget for equipment. The environment is bureaucratic and inefficient.
Abandoned the terrible "Welsh" based performance management system
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