Cable & Wireless Reviews

Pros

An overall good place to work for. Good smooth and regular chances to learn new technologies and diverse teams to work with... overall for me it was a great learning and working experience.

Cons

Hell like a huge number of teams.... always wonder who does what?? a hell lot of applications to work with... expect ur best Intel Sever to slow if all applications loaded and in peak time. :D lol... nothing as bad i found more

Advice to Senior Management

integrate your diverse systems into a single system..

Pros

Good people in the ranks
Hard workers who cared
Some good products and services

Cons

Under-investment in most areas except the executive remuneration
Spectacular croneyism at the top of the company combined with an hugely overinflated opinion of their own abilities

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the devisive senior bonuses and spend the money on the people who make the company work

Pros

Good badge/brand
Still some good people in the business
Amazingly lax Corporate Card policy/culture

Cons

Highly politicized middle management
Completely out of touch senior management
Network starved of investment and at capacity
Products and pricing completely out of kilter with market
No client focus whatsoever
Constant changes of management direction
Appalling HR review process
Finance holds complete sway over everything
A company of a thousand private empires
Very poor commission scheme
Staff morale very low
You'll feel like Captain Willard every morning

Advice to Senior Management

A strange air of unreality exists in most areas - the staff simply don't believe the hype anymore. You've lost the faith of the employees. Ignore the shareholders for a moment, and stop changing things - let it settle, invest in your people, and most of all; stop lying to them!

Working at C&W was an interesting experience in witnessing how it's entirely possible to destroy a company from within using just demoralisation. The offshoring, the redundancies, the pay freezes, the under-staffing, the lack of investment, and the almost constant barrage of seemingly irrelevant missives from the ivory towers. The bullying management style up top pervades down through every crevice of the organisation. I've never been in or near a company so utterly dysfunctional as C&WW.

Pros

I had to do lots of international trips, meet people from all around Europe, enjoyed gatherings in the evening. if you get to work for a fair boss, you'll love C&W and its opportunities.

Cons

I got to work for one who loved to harness people and talk bad behind their backs. He was very proud of himself as a whole person, but in fact I've never seen such a fake person. So be aware!

Advice to Senior Management

it's not all gold what shines... don't always believe what another boss tells you. he might only want to harness a 3rd person...

Pros

Experience, networking, benefits, salary, union

Cons

Life balance, lack of growing opportunities, ever changing priorities, misleading management

Advice to Senior Management

embrace the challenges

Pros

flexability of working and the most of the guys on the ground (men and women are great

Cons

my current pay and some people are in it to win rather than team work

Advice to Senior Management

stop telling the market we are'nt doing well too early!

Pros

Good salary, and satisfactory vacation days.

Cons

too long hours. Too bureaucratic.

Pros

Ideal location in Bracknell Berkshire. I-Learn courses are also good and you can learn new skills through these to further your career.

Cons

Bad management. Straight talking program which is a lot of red tape that suffocates you from doing your job. Bizarre Policies. Lazy Colleagues and Line Managers. Bad Salarys

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

Flexible Timings - Salary - Less Work Pressure - Easy going - Good work location - Good work life balance

Cons

Silly HR policies - visionless senior management - Lazy collegaues - Process slaves - most activities Peaople dependent than Process dependent - too many South Indians - No cultural diversity - partiality shown towards boastful employees - No intergrity in terms of services provided to customers - solution implemented is not the solution proposed and agreed.

Advice to Senior Management

Please look for substance, than style in employees. Have a clear vision in terms of what you want to do - stop selling solutions which you know you cant provide, implement and support.

Pros

Ability to think of an idea and carry it through

Cons

Not enough motivated people in the company

Advice to Senior Management

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