Logica Reviews

Pros

Excellent work - life balance as Logica encourages to work from home
Has a competitive salary structure and reward program

Cons

Management feedback and review process is not well defined and one has to charter and be responsible for his own career path

Advice to Senior Management

Advice to be more competitive in seeking contracts as some of the existing contracts were loss making.
develope a better performance appraisal, review and feedback process

Pros

Smart-working (working from home) - cutting out the commuting time gave great benefits to work-life balance while at the same time the savings made from commuting & working costs was the best pay-rise Logica ever gave (sad but true!).
Logica Football World Cup!
Great people, blitz spirit!

Cons

Lack of recognition, inconsistent performance reviews, redundancies, pay-freezes, lack of investment in tools to do the job.
You could work yourself to the bone one year and do nothing the next - yet end up with the same result performance & salary-wise!

Advice to Senior Management

Introduce a credible performance bonus structure for all fee-earners, tieing rewards to personal performance not annual company performance.

Pros

Working with highly talented individuals who are specialists in their field

Cons

Internal politics and glory seeking

Advice to Senior Management

More face to face time with employees to discuss issues

Pros

Work life balance seems OK. Nobody expects you to work 14 hour days. Management flexibility on home working is good, but does fragment teams causing problems.

Cons

Lack of promotion and the yearly performace review is a total joke. No pay increase over the last 3 years (not even inflation).

Advice to Senior Management

Stop wasting time on comapny strap lines and redefining how to relate to customers with new jazzy terms (its the same as before, but call something differnet). This really gets up the noses of front line staff.

Pros

Recently joned - appear to have come in on updaed payscales which are reasonably competetive
Logica is still a strong and respected brand name
In theory there are lts of avenues / opportunities - but in reality they seem very difficult to get into
There ARE lots of very clver and people who are repsected across the industry in their field

Cons

I am placed at a client site - as another reviewer has mentioned this means your are effectively abandoned by the company - in effect you are an employees of the client having to confirm to theor processes , culture and hours etc BUT still having the overhead of the Logica bureacracy (timesheets, performance reviews) most of which is irrelevant. This is why I describe there being no company DNA - apart from my salary being paid I have no feeling or working-for, or loyalty-to, the company.

This can mean you can potentially regularly work a lot more hours than your expected or contracted hours - without any chance of recognition or reward, as it comes under the usual clauses of working-hours directive opt-out. This is frustrating when you consider the amount of overhead/ non-blllable staff your efforts are supporting.

Because of high overheads, its difficult to sell Logica resource at a competetive rate.

The HR/internal process are relentless - seeming chasing pointless tick-boxes which have no bearing on the current engagement, and with endless follow-up

Being a highly disbursed,distributed company - you will rarely get to meet HR, People Managers etc.

Advice to Senior Management

To soon to say. Possibly cut out a lot of the bureaucracy - get closer to the people generating revenue to identify cross-selling opportunities.

Pros

challenge opportunities possibilities to learn collegues accessibility of the management open flexible work-life-balance teleworking daily allowances carreer growth advantages car

Cons

sales are not optimal stock rate down performance evaluation not optimal
in times of crisis it does not perform very well compared to other competitors

Pros

They have work from home policy. Generally on organisation level they don't approve of over work. Other than this i don't see any other "Pro"

Cons

1 - Incompetent management
2 - higer variable pay
3 - outdated bogus apparaisal process - They ask you to keep lines of code counting and then do some stupid arithmetic to prove your work.
4 - Horrible work environment - chep people running this.
5 - Managers are egoist, they think they are the smartest people in whole world.

Advice to Senior Management

They have lost connection with the workers. Managers are very egoistic towards employees, they don't understand the change that is being embrassed by software industry across the world.. like Agile scrum and use these to pressurise and humiliate people.

Pros

Range of clients and industry sectors;
A well-known and respected name for the CV;
Training pretty readily available (but see Cons);
Freedom and autonomy to choose your path in the company (but see Cons);
A lot of clever and talented technical people to work with;
It's getting better due to CEO leadership (but see Cons).

Cons

Pay is low and pay structure is full of anomalies;
Client-site based staff are largely abandoned by the organisation;
No active support for career development from the company. You are on your own in this respect and treated like a contractor, brought in to do a specific job and then cast aside at the end
High overheads. Too many non-billable office-based staff pushing paper;
Risk averse culture;
Terrible performance review process;
Terrible (non-existent) resourcing process. Finding a new role is down to your own efforts with little support.
Middle management composed of over-promoted technical people with few people or leadership skills, leading to poor communication at lower-levels of the organisation.

Advice to Senior Management

1. Clone the CEO. Failing that, ensure the changes in leadership style (open, communicative, decisive) he has introduced are spread more widely throughout the enterprise.
2. Pay rises may be difficult to fund in the current environment. So instead, ensure that the pay structure is fair, anomalies are dealt with and no new ones are introduced.
3. Sort out the performance review process so that 90% of the review meeting doesn't involve the reviewee telling their manager what they've been doing for the past year since it's the first time they've ever met.

Pros

Lots of sharp people doing good work
Has a reputation for delivering difficult projects
It's possible to maintain a good work/life balance if you want to
Varied and interesting work
Is a good place for a graduate to get 2-3 years' good experience
There is a good networking culture which means that most people will help if you ring them up out of the blue

Cons

Unfortunately the sharp people doing good work aren't the ones in charge
No pay rises
No career development or planning and little training
No attempt to manage the internal job market to line up suitable roles for people as they come available
No personal contact from personal line management
Too much pointless internal reorganisation that makes no difference

Advice to Senior Management

Scrap the demoralising Performance Review process and stop lying that there is a link between performance and salary
Put in place proper staff management and career development
Try to have a stable management team doing for long enough to find out if they are any good or not instead of constant churn

Pros

good on cv as it's a well- respected name in the it industry.

Cons

no structured or clear promotion procedures.