How is management perceived at Prodrive Technologies?

Some really capable and ambitious people are working here, trying their best to make things work.

Really poor management over the years, but repercussions of bad decisions are directed towards employees by cutting promised wage increases on short notice, kicking out a lot of people suddenly and taking back a lot of the advantages Prodrive offered such as work-from-home and choosing your own hours. HR employees are chosen not on people skills, but on engineering or business skills, creating a lot of issues and tension between hr and employees searching for guidance. No steps were taken to make changes in the management board, who have been on the board for more than 5 years, thus creating the situation of poor business and output results that are occurring now. Lastly, sneaky tricks such as trying to not pay remaining vacation days of fired employees, or completely freezing their salary increase are being pulled to save some small figures, completely devastating company culture for remaining employees.

At the moment most Pros for working here in comparison with competitors are not available anymore. Only complete freedom in working hours is still present.

Less than a month before pay-increases and bonus-explanation it is communicated that both will be less/non-existent. Work-from-home is completely removed, only remains for "important" people on the board or management. Close to no personal attention for employees, not for development but also not during times of struggle. Promises are not kept by people in HR. People that have worked here for a long time are let go or leave themselves, and encounter absurd (and illegal) issues, such as the company refusing to pay out saved up vacation hours or setting their agreed wage-increase suddenly to 0.

Some really capable and ambitious people are working here, trying their best to make things work.

Really poor management over the years, but repercussions of bad decisions are directed towards employees by cutting promised wage increases on short notice, kicking out a lot of people suddenly and taking back a lot of the advantages Prodrive offered such as work-from-home and choosing your own hours. HR employees are chosen not on people skills, but on engineering or business skills, creating a lot of issues and tension between hr and employees searching for guidance. No steps were taken to make changes in the management board, who have been on the board for more than 5 years, thus creating the situation of poor business and output results that are occurring now. Lastly, sneaky tricks such as trying to not pay remaining vacation days of fired employees, or completely freezing their salary increase are being pulled to save some small figures, completely devastating company culture for remaining employees.

office environment, hours flexibility, opportunities to learn

compensation is ok but without adequate increases, zero diversity when it comes to management (only Dutch), non-existent onboarding - you have to figure out everything by yourself

high responsibility, dynamic company. Good place to learn.

relatively low salary, bad management, poor financial results.

gratis eten flexibel werk goed voor junioren

jonge onervaren mensen krijgen enigszins promotie, er is geen logische verklaring voor wie wat promoot. Mensen die teamleider worden omdat ze dat willen en omdat ze goede relaties hebben met het hogere management, belemmeren zonder voldoende ervaring en kennis de ontwikkeling van projecten, de doorgroei van ervaren mensen en de ontwikkeling van het bedrijf. Dit geldt voor alle afdelingen, er is nepotisme, het hogere management bevoordeelt alleen mensen met wie ze op goede voet staan.

Free lunch and option for dinner, fun colleagues

Poor management over the last few years, resulting in large financial losses due to poor efficiency levels on production. This resulted in the indirect chasing away of R&D employees by specifically lowering earlier agreed on bonusses, only a month in advance. HR is a joke, coaches are not chosen based on competences but on ambition/friendships. The last year the only thing R&D is working on is safety, so no new exciting projects are coming in.

Loved my coworkers, free lunch and the office has a younger demographic

Manager did not seem to respect me and my role, and there was no real training process. Seems as though they did not have experience managing others and it led to a difficult situation where I needed to overcompensate to be able to work effectively.

gratis eten flexibel werk goed voor junioren

jonge onervaren mensen krijgen enigszins promotie, er is geen logische verklaring voor wie wat promoot. Mensen die teamleider worden omdat ze dat willen en omdat ze goede relaties hebben met het hogere management, belemmeren zonder voldoende ervaring en kennis de ontwikkeling van projecten, de doorgroei van ervaren mensen en de ontwikkeling van het bedrijf. Dit geldt voor alle afdelingen, er is nepotisme, het hogere management bevoordeelt alleen mensen met wie ze op goede voet staan.

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