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    Equal Experts Reviews

    Updated February 19, 2019
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    Equal Experts Managing Director Thomas Granier
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    Pros

    • "Work life balance is actually a thing" (in 18 reviews)

    • "Interesting projects, great organisational support, and they take great care of employees and encourage" (in 10 reviews)

    Cons

    • "We are seeing on loosing out good people over the past couple of years and dont see any action taken over it" (in 5 reviews)

    • "As others have commented, going through growing pains as the original lightweight processes and org structures are being scaled" (in 5 reviews)

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    1. "Company of grownups"

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      • Work/Life Balance
      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - People Manager
      Current Employee - People Manager
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Equal Experts full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Voted one of the best places to work for in terms of work life balance and you understand why once you work for Equal Experts

      Cons

      You need to hit the ground running. No hand holding

    2. "Progressive Company"

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      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England (UK)
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England (UK)
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Equal Experts full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      A true values driven organisation that has progressive ways of working and attitudes to their people. Always seeking to learn, evolve and to do better. A world apart from the usual traditional IT consultancies and all the better for it . A focus on doing what's right for clients and their people above office politics and profits.

      Cons

      Some growing pains as they evolve.

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      "People management needs to improve"

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      Current Employee - Software Engineer in Pune (India)
      Current Employee - Software Engineer in Pune (India)
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Equal Experts full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      The global EE network is amazing. A lot of learning if you get to work with people from that network.
      Many good focused slack groups for a wide variety of topics ranging from delivery, technology, devops, security etc.

      Cons

      A lot of the good people from Pune office have moved out in a couple of years and the new ones that have joined are nowhere close even if they're experienced.

      EE Pune is heavily under staffed and the management is still happily signing up for new work and team expansion on existing projects. This leading to a lot of issues like no one to work on new inititatives like upskilling, R&D etc. Also, the earlier good things like bootcamps for new joiners are not happening more. It is also leading to cutting some corners in the recruitment process.

      Due to some project demands, enough thought is not being put into team composition. Some projects have all the senior and experienced people whereas a lot of projects are composed of mostly new joiners. This causes a lot of trouble in delivery as the new joiners are not familiar to EE ways of doing things.

      The management is decoupled from what is happening on the projects and can lead to making decisions which are not beneficial for some of the projects.

      Advice to Management

      Please give up some work and free up senior people to work on the necessary initiatives. Listen and act on the feedback given by employees regarding how things can be improved.
      Bring back the earlier hiring process of letting the candidate go instead of figuring out if he'll do on a particular project. Also, if some of the panels are not convinced for a candidate, listen to them rather than convince them.

      Equal Experts Response

      Mar 20, 2019 – Director, Equal Experts India

      Firstly, I would like to thank you for taking the effort in providing us with the feedback. I feel sad to hear about your experience and also disappointed that we let down because a few internal... More

    4. Helpful (1)

      "Great place for "grown-ups""

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      • Work/Life Balance
      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England (UK)
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England (UK)
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Equal Experts full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Interesting and challenging projects, encourages a great work-life balance (depending a bit on the individual client's working practices), some really good people who are highly skilled and in the most part humble and open to ideas. Lots of autonomy to make decisions, try things

      Cons

      As others have commented, going through growing pains as the original lightweight processes and org structures are being scaled. But generally this is being done in a sensitive and mature way, and for the right reasons. Recent changes to strengthen the Exec team are starting to work well.
      Some projects struggle to apply the EE cultural values, often due in a large part to politics within the client's team. Occasionally leads/EMs struggle to manage this type of client, but ultimately people get paid well to deal with these challenges.
      Permanent and contract staff are given a lot of autonomy, and in general the recruitment process selects great people ("grown-ups") who can make the most of this responsibility. If you can't, go somewhere else.

      Advice to Management

      Keep reinforcing the values, experiment a bit more with developing innovative internal processes and don't be afraid to try something and fail/learn.

    5. Helpful (2)

      "No more a must place to work at"

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      • Culture & Values
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      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Pune (India)
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Pune (India)
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Equal Experts full-time

      Pros

      Some of the best minds at work. On an avg, you will find people who are technically strong and easy to work with. Exceptions will always be there but overall a good bunch of people.
      Decent projects to work on.
      Good work life balance. People are expected to be responsible and mature and to honor the freedom and works well with the overall values.
      EE UK takes efforts to publish policies and review progress of each business unit. Transparency is looked at seriously at the global level.
      Admin staff is helpful.

      Cons

      We are seeing on loosing out good people over the past couple of years and dont see any action taken over it.
      People managers seem helpful and they have everything on the "agenda" but nothing EVER gets done, even a year down the line you will get same replies.
      No travelling opportunities, its just gone on a decline over the past couple of years
      We should adhere more to the EE global values of Transparency, no bias, no ego policy but that somehow isnt seen at the top management level. For eg. they made changes to the PF policy even without informing the employees from April last year. On top of that, voicing concerns is taken personally.

      Advice to Management

      I really appreciate the UK team to focus on making the company a genuinely better place to work at . Please make every business unit professional and in sync so that people can suggest and give feedback freely, otherwise people will just leave.

      Equal Experts Response

      Mar 20, 2019 – Director, Equal Experts India

      Firstly, I would like to thank you for taking the effort in providing us with the feedback. What you describe is certainly not consistent with our values. I empathise with you and can imagine how... More

    6. Helpful (1)

      "A great place to work!!"

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      • Work/Life Balance
      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Former Employee - Software Engineer in Pune (India)
      Former Employee - Software Engineer in Pune (India)
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Equal Experts full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      - Good people both in tech and in support team
      - Exposure to many areas of software development - frontend, backend, devOps (of course, if you are interested to learn)
      - Overall good technology stack in almost all the projects
      - Company philosophy and values are really good and few people are true to them
      - Lot to learn from the people around, not just about tech but a lot of other helpful things in life
      - Most of the people don't care about their roles and eager to learn, share. So, you can spend a lot of time here, working with code instead of trying to climb the ladder of designations.

      Cons

      - Sudden growth is causing a real damage to the core culture of the company
      - Sometimes unnecessary importance is given to policies like WFH and that makes the new joiners question whether it's really a company of grown ups. No one misuses it, even if someone does, handle that specific case, don't make policies around it. It's not an incentive.
      - Compromises on practices like TDD, enough test coverage (its not just a number, its an important number)
      - Slow decisions by people team
      - Grey areas in some of the policies. Only when you ask, you will get the answer (sometimes its not helpful to the employee)

      Advice to Management

      - Set up a process to groom potential leads. The up-skilling initiative was good but somehow died.
      - Invest in internal tools like payday and others. With the kind of growth company is experiencing, it will be really helpful.
      - Have the senior folks visit every project once in a while to look from an outsider's perspective.
      - Keep up the good work, it is one of the rare companies with such a great set of people.

    7. Helpful (6)

      "Senior Software Engineer"

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      Former Employee - Senior Software Engineer in Pune (India)
      Former Employee - Senior Software Engineer in Pune (India)
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Equal Experts full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Lot of opportunities to learn new technologies. Provides flexibility to choose technologies. All the people are easily accessible and share a lot with the new members. Mentoring is there but not formal. Flexible work hours and work from home. EE UK network is great and lot of expertise.

      Cons

      Company and projects moving away from the values they preach and publish. People are forced to ignore quality for timelines agreed without discussion with the teams. India operations merely looking to get billable people instead of quality. HR policies are at whim's of few people and change overnight. Appraisals are delayed just a way of retention. Recent focus of local clients is leading to same environment as any other Indian service companies. No real onsite opportunities. Management has created there own ivory tower and is not aware of ground level reality. Just the name is Equal Expert but employees are not treated equally.

      Advice to Management

      Instead of asking feedback for people when they leave, better listen to them when they are in the organisation. Make people feel appreciated . Transparency is missing as compared to EE UK. People are just given responsibilities but authority is missing. Don't lower the recruitment quality bar it has already started hitting the overall quality.

    8. "Great place to work"

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      • Culture & Values
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      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Equal Experts full-time

      Pros

      Fantastic work / life balance.

      Colleagues are treated equally across the network, regardless of position held.

      All ideas, thoughts and suggestions for improvements are valued. Feedback is actively sought for any process changes, providing employees with the opportunity to have their input and influence on changes within the business.

      You are treated as a grown up and entrusted to get the job done.

      Great colleagues to work with, everyone is willing to share knowledge and help others, really positive atmosphere / team spirit.

      Cons

      Non that I can think of

    9. "A great place to be..."

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      • Work/Life Balance
      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Manchester, England (UK)
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Manchester, England (UK)
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Equal Experts part-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      - Great work-life balance.
      - Your opinion is actively sought and valued.
      - You have the opportunity to influence at all levels.
      - There is a real team feel - individuals respect and support each other.
      - Autonomy - you are trusted to do the right thing and to use your expertise.

      Cons

      Non that I can think of!

      Advice to Management

      Keep doing what you are doing.

    10. Helpful (1)

      "Join to become an expert in XP practices"

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      • Work/Life Balance
      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Software Engineer in Pune (India)
      Current Employee - Software Engineer in Pune (India)
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Equal Experts full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      1. XP and Agile practices are actually followed and not just paid lip service.
      2. Flexible hours and WFH allowed
      3. Generous profit sharing.
      4. Free evening snacks.
      5. Flat organisational structure and open culture

      Cons

      1. Onsite opportunities are drying up.
      2. Even though it's a software consultancy, actual client consultation is uneven across the projects.
      3. The office is very nice inside, but the IT park (cerebrum) is poorly maintained.

      Advice to Management

      1. Close down support projects and redistribute employees to greenfield projects
      2.