A Pit of Despair - Software Engineer ION Group Employee Review

1.0
Dec 18, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

A small bowl of free fruit some days

Cons

Demoralised staff (what's left of them) Refusal to hire new people Hugely sub-inflationary "pay rises" for the last few years Only decent thing was the hybrid model allowing working from home. However, with typical ION timing, we received a lovely pre-Christmas gift saying that as of the New Year, we will all be expected to attend the office 5 days a week. This is the same office that they've 1) Sublet one floor 2) Removed all permanent stations, making them "hot desks" 3) Don't actually have enough room to accommodate all the staff 4) Expect devs and sales people to mix, meaning that you end up sitting next to someone on a shouty sales call while trying to debug a complex problem 5) No real lunch area to use 6) Stinks of garbage in the Summer as it's next to the City of London rubbish processing plant!!

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

I get to work from home and have a grand-fathered in unlimited PTO policy. And that's about it.

Cons

RUN. This is just a horrible company to work for. Either you are living in constant fear of being fired or you are so overworked you feel like you have to work 60 hours a week just to do the bare minimum. The CEO, Andrea, is just gutting everything, doing mass layoffs over and over again. He has no clear visit for the company, goal posts keep changing, and everyone is setup to fail.

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