BT Reviews

Pros

independance, freedom
ability to scale your work day/week
interaction with different levels on a pan BT leve

Cons

salary, benefits
not customer connected
lack of people or talent management

Advice to Senior Management

take better care of your people

Pros

Large company with opportunities to move around the company into different roles and specialisms. Good colleagues to work with and generally a very good team spirit.

Cons

The continuing focus on performance management is time consuming, distracting and demotivating. Every quarter we have to satisfy a quota of people to categorise as Development Needed. Great performance can be quickly negated by a minor mistake which makes people fearful of risk taking.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat people with more respect and you will encourage more ideas and better performance. Recognise that the continued cost cutting has been very effective but now in danger of going too far.

Pros

Leading player in a dynamic industry
Broad range of opportunities within multiple business units
People are genuinely nice
Job security
Work life balance - 9 to 5, even for managers
Very well located for those working in BT Centre

Cons

No causality between great performance and promotion
Bonus and Salary increaces are unclear, to say the least
Resistance to change is huge, it creates frustrations when trying to improve things

Advice to Senior Management

Often, Executive leadership wastes too much time focusing on details and misses the big picture

Pros

BT used to be a good company to work for but since the removal of the 25 year embargo on compulsory redundancies, BT is now using performance management as a cheap alternative to redundancy

Cons

Although BT is trying to keep it quiet. It has a headcount reduction target year-on-year anis hardwiring it into the bonuses of senior managers to make sure that the company gets below 60,000 employees by the end of 2012. It is now very much a toxic environment in which to work and senior managers know it's going on and are just turning their back on it. The way things are going in five years time there will be no one to carry out the work at present they cannot keep their old PDH network planning and delivery shocking service to both retail and wholesale clients.

Advice to Senior Management

You really need to eradicate bullying at all levels and ask yourself why more and more people are taking you to the industrial tribunal and you asked in all the time to for people to sign nondisclosure agreements so you do not have fared in the press distress and anxiety in the company is beyond reproach and is at levels cannot be maintained. You really need to realise that people are your best assets but it's far too late that

Pros

a. Work Life balance - 9 to 5 with ample vacations
b. Some decent projects - very very rare

Cons

a. No growth - forget about salary hikes, promotions or doing anything substantial
b. Poor management - More interested in recruiting rather than your growth
c. Very poor projects - Big chunk of people completely against change, very difficult to get things done. End up just making ppt and no results coming out of them

Advice to Senior Management

If you are really interested in keeping talent in the company, then invest in their growth. Make sure that they get real roles and have the power to take decisions and make changes

Pros

exposure to wide range of technologies

Cons

bureaucrat, performance management is extremely inefficient.

Advice to Senior Management

simplify performance management; differentiate people; invest to keep talents, give up free riders.

Pros

easy work good pay excellent pay flexible work schedule work from home some travel needed domestically international good team work

Cons

too much burocracy too many layers lot of approval process age old systems global presence of the teams not enough in house staff

Pros

work life balance
people & leaders
friendly environment
well established structure, processes, and systems
availability of diverse range of roles

Cons

limited business growth potential
limited advancement opportunities
extensive stakeholder management requirements
very difficult and slow environment to get things done

Advice to Senior Management

need better performance and talent management to eliminate mediocracy, promote meritocracy, and encourage fresh leadership
bolder, less conservative moves required to fuel business growth

Pros

Working for BT in the UK seems to be a very stable job.

Cons

Working for BT in the US when your projects are in the UK can be challenging.

Advice to Senior Management

Take more time understanding everything about what you are trying to deliver.

Pros

Good salary and good benefits

Cons

No direction. They are just rehashing the same corporate structures that have been done before and didnt work

Advice to Senior Management

Come up with some new and fresh ideas.