Unipart Digital - an example of how money can't buy talent - Development Unipart Employee Review

1.0
Oct 15, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They pay really well, and you don't have to be any good.

Cons

Lots of money is being poured into this project, but the results are sparse. The fundamental problem is the person in charge is just inexperienced in people management, product development and basic technology. "Product" struggle to description functionality, and are somewhat defensive, so there is no appetite for change in that area. Infrastructure is very primitive, and no plans to use modern devops - no distrubuted architectures, CI, kubernetes. With all these issues, there is a real sense of elitism (I heard one of the sysadmins describe their team as "some of the brightest minds of a generation", yet there they are, manually creating instances and building each dependancy at the command line. OK - how are you meant to work with that, right?! The developers have limited commercial experience of best practice and modern design patterns for software (think monoliths vs. micro services). Again, very little appetite for change in this area, too. PHP is a prefered language. Combine poor quality product, software architecture and infrastructure with a sense of elitism, and you have a very toxic environment to work in.

avatar
Unipart Response
5y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. As you have mentioned, we continue to make a significant commitment to invest in our digital team and associated technologies – we have a start-up philosophy with established company backing. Whilst we always listen to constructive feedback, many of your points are not representative of the values and behaviours we demonstrate here at Unipart. Our digital team benefits from being a small team within a large and established company, tackling problems which have immediate and long-term impacts. Providing an Enterprise Warehouse Management system (WMS) Unipart Digital Enterprise System and Data Science services to our internal and external customers. We work with a range of languages - predominantly Python - and try to adopt the best of both the academic and open-source cultures, having a high-degree of independence, and working on multiple challenging and strategically important projects. We highly value intelligence and curiosity, and welcome people from the Arts and the Sciences; our team includes lawyers, classicists, philosophers, and musicians as well as scientists and engineers and those with no formal training. We recognise that great programmers come from different backgrounds, and therefore the most important aspects are intellectual curiosity, creativity, and the "hacker mind-set”. We absolutely have friends and ex-colleagues working together as our colleagues recommend our team and company as a great place to work. This is reflected in our strong employee engagement scores and regular social activities – with colleagues choosing to spend time together outside of the typical working day. We are a friendly group with great flexibility in working times and locations, a well-stocked kitchen, and a welcoming ethos! With 99.99% infrastructure credibility we offer a robust service to our clients and continue to develop our products and services to lead Unipart in the 4th Industrial Revolution. Once again, we thank you for taking the time to leave a review and wish you well for your future career.

Explore other reviews about Unipart

5.0
Sep 9, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very nice people can’t wait to start

Cons

The Only thing is online

avatar
Unipart Response
2y
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave this review. We appreciate your feedback.
3.0
Feb 5, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay employee are fairly nice

Cons

Management don’t really care about their employees, can often be quite rude

avatar
Unipart Response
2mo
Thank you for taking time to share your feedback - we wish you well in your future career.
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All