lovely place to work - Administrative Assistant RoBAT Employee Review

Interesting work with plenty of foreign travel. Some good people there too.

Some senior staff close to MD are backstabbers. MD manages using telepathy. You need to be able to read his mind to work out HIS priorities (not necessarily the correct priorities!) He cannot communicate other than to berate you for something you didn't realise he wanted you to do. MD has many good qualities - foresight, drive, hard-working. He is a great business builder. He just really, really sucks at managing people - especially technical people. This creates stress. Mountains of stress! I was there for some years. I floated out of the company when I was let go. Stress of working there had given me alopecia. Took two years to recover. I knew I was being replaced, my job not being made redundant as they claimed. Could have sued for unfair dismissal, but didn't want to harm the company or former colleagues by hitting company financially. Looking back, I wish I had.

Nice people. Many of the workers are really friendly. Varied job Chance to contribute alot

MD doesn't value employees nor listen to their ideas No incentives for working hard, expectations of working 50 hours plus at times with no overtime paid. Time in lieu supposedly exists but I never took it nor felt comfortable to ask for it. Huge turnover of employees if you're a mechanical engineer avoid at all costs they're the ones that Robat gets rid of the most. If you want a long term career this is not the place. I would encourage anyone to avoid at all costs.