Pros
Nice office. Reasonably good pay and benefits
Kontras
The culture in across the board is toxic with bullying rife. Everyone petrified of being fired/pushed out. Directors are insecure and inexperienced. They are over promoted due to their friendships with the executive. They focus on their own command and control and self promotion. Micromanagement is utilised to create pressure and nervousness and self doubt. The environment is poisonous and tense. There are multiple people suffering poor mental health because of bullying and stress. Promotions are based on favouritism/cronyism, without open and fair recruitment processes. Nobody trusts each other because the relationship checkatrade has with its employees is like that of an abuser and their victim. The abuse 'victims' throw each other under the bus to avoid being the one picked on. It deflects attention away from them for a short time. Raising concerns or whistleblowing will see the micromanagement and harassment intensify. HR do nothing and facilitate the poor practices to allow jobs to be given to favourites without interview or assessment and poor exit and firing strategies, which are 'just' within the letter of the law but definitely not in the spirit of it. They try to blame long-standing staff and say they are resistant to change (see fake HR review last year) but the truth is even those of us who joined a year ago, full of excitement and enthusiasm see it and experience the toxicity. This leadership group of imported cronies are like a cult of deluded followers who think they are amazing and doing a great job but are too inexperienced to see they are anything but A players. Reading these reviews I realise I am not alone but I am being isolated intentionally and feel unable to speak to colleagues about what I am experiencing and seeing others be put through. I've been gaslighted, marginalised and humiliated at this company, and now I see I wasn't mad and its not just me. AVOID THIS COMPANY AT ALL COSTS. Anything good is just a veneer of pretense. I'm looking forward to the day I resign
