Joke of a company!! - Anonymous employee QA Employee Review

1.0
Jan 10, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Operation team and some of the Recruiters.

Cons

Where do I start.. The worst company I have ever worked for. If you want a recruitment job don’t bother, nothing more than a call centre. If you are considering joining as a grad, don’t bother you are just pound signs to them, they will get rid of you whenever they please and will tell you ‘you’re not good enough’ - Management favour some perm staff, allowing bullying and intimidation. Causing staff to feel like management is unapproachable. - Made to feel bad if you need time off for important appointments or holidays, yet ‘favourites’ are allowed to leave early and start later to go to hair appointments and collect shopping packages. - Complaints are dismissed and covered up to make sure the truth about management does not come out. - Senior members of staff fall asleep at their desk, STINK of alcohol and try to embarrass staff. - NO PROGRESSION, do not let them trick you in thinking you will progress. You won’t. Salary is ridiculous compared to other roles doing less elsewhere. - You are made to feel bad or that you have a problem if you ask to talk about bullying. - ‘Free beer Fridays’ more like allow staff to drink vodka/rum/whisky in a classroom with ‘selected’ favoured grads and others are limited to beers, put into a corner. - School ground environment There has been a number of bad reviews written online about QA Consulting, I have first-hand witnessed management cover them up by forcing staff to write good reviews to take bad ones down the list, I have heard management tell directors etc in the business that the complaints are lies or that the person writing it has a personal problem with the company, when in fact QA Consulting need to take reviews on board and stop pretending they aren’t true. GRADUATES – Don’t insult yourself by starting at QAConsulting. We get told to avoid the truth to sell you a brilliant scheme.

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QA Response
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The points you have made in your review about some members of management are naturally of great concern to me and I have launched an internal investigation into the recruitment practises in the Salford office to understand what we can do to improve. I will not tolerate bullying, intimidation or insobriety in the workplace and no one that works for us should have to experience any of these things. I want to apologise for the fact you are so unhappy at QA, whilst it may be little consolation to you at the moment, I wanted to let you know that the issues you have described here are not systemic across the QA business. We run regular staff surveys across our offices and I examine the feedback across these surveys – they tell me that staff morale within the consulting division is on the rise. This data leads me to believe that what you are experiencing is a confined issue and my investigation is intended to resolve this. The other element of your review that I want to address is the points you make in relation to the role itself. You describe the role as having a ‘call centre’ like element to it and express your dissatisfaction in what you were asked to do as part of the role. My feeling on this is that perhaps the type of role is not quite right for you. I say this because I started my own career in this exact same environment and have run transactional sales teams at QA for over 10 years and whilst I know it is not a good fit for everyone, I also know that for others the transactional sales environment can be a very fun and dynamic one. Our internal recruiter roles are target-driven and they do require direct telesales work as part of it. Ultimately, the whole purpose of this is that we are working hard to find great potential talent and we are then investing significantly in their development and creating great outcomes for the vast majority we employ. The process itself is a legitimate means to a positive outcome for individuals who would otherwise not be aware of our opportunities. I asked to see the job description for our recruiter role after being alerted to this review and it does make these elements of the role very clear. However, it may be that a) you did not come through the standard recruitment channels or b) found that this role was not something you wanted having given it a go.

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