I would not recommend joining Woodmac to my friends or family.
- the negative reviews from 3 years ago are still true
- often changes in the vision of company direction
- often changes in CEOs
- management will throw you under the train to save themselves
- evergrowing number of management and decreasing number of doers
- bad decisions made by management are pushed onto you so they can blame somebody else (we couldn't deliver x because of person y)
- inability to hire talent and lately too many talented people leaving (they currently hide it by saying that they are hiring diverse people rather than quality people)
- technical debt that is not prioritized
- too many leaders with their own vision and duplicated work streams (there is a high chance that work you do for 2 years will go to the bin just because other leaders won politics)
- you don't set your personal OKRs, management push their OKRs onto you (so basically they will get their bonuses)
- too much politics
- pay rise in average is in the region of 0.5%, not mentioning the below the market rates
- bonus in average is in the region of £500-£1000 per year for a good achiever
- promotions are based on the political side you join (if your party is in power)
- you will realize there is no culture or values after a few All Hands meetings
- too much micromanagement from all the product owners, management, and scrum masters.
