Senior management team lack any direction and breed nepotism and bureaucracy - Anonymous employee Daikin Employee Review

3.0
Mar 2, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Colleagues are typically great and most are knowledgeable. You are able to define your own work/life balance.

Cons

Nepotism - Zero career progression, unless you are best friends with senior management Lack of any direction, shows no understanding of the sector. Teflon shoulders and pass the buck trend is prominent between departments Silo working HR team are incompetent and do not support staff Bums on seats mentality - If you're not present, you're not working. No training, you need to be self-sufficient at Daikin UK to survive, Poor staff retention, over hiring in a declining sector. Majority old white male company, very backwards mentality. Wrong people in important roles. Non-existent pay structure.

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Work life balance great opportunities for career development

Cons

Remote work is not allowed, making it seem like employees aren't trusted at times

2.0
Mar 5, 2026
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Pros

Its in a nice building

Cons

Insane lack of communication; left alone after 3 hours on my first day. Did the work they wanted but not fast enough and they had a backup waiting to take my place and were not coy or secretive about that whatsoever. Was told not to bring lunch my first day. So I didn't bring lunch my first day. They did not provide lunch on my first day. I went out and bought food and then came back and worked alone the rest of the day. My trainer had retired years prior from a different company and couldn't understand that a PDF could be opened more than one way. What a relief I did not stick around. Oh yeah and I got very sick when they called to lay me off, but they needed their stuff back. Do you think they sent a courier? Nah. I went in thd next day, still sick, and waited over 10 minutes until hopping the security gate because no one was there AND I WAS SICK. Yeah, shortly after I received my positive COVID results. Welp, that about sums up my short stint at this place. Legal dept was completely chaotic. Also the open floorplan was awful during covid.

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