Ipsos reviews

Handed in my notice and wasn't welcomed after that,alienated me and never copied me in for staff lunches or events that were happening in my final month. Expected me to be in every day to train the person who was going to take my job, but they didn't hire anyone, so why be in when i was seriously ill, if there was no one to train! Boggles the mind of the useless management. I was sick for a couple of days and was asked to either come in or be in breach of my contract where they'd cancel it and not pay me any money for the month! Utter disgusting behaviour and already sent this to the HR team, who simply did not care about the illegal activity they do. Compared to other companies they pay really low, shockingly low, i am now in a job that is paying £15,000 more.

- Very low pay, especially for our field - In some ways you can grow, in some ways you can't grow - Outdated office - We use outdated technology (VB6, SAS, ColdFusion, etc), and outdated tools (Sourcesafe for source control) - People want to STICK to these outdated tools - Some people are not willing to learn the new technologies/tools - We don't do the proper SDLC, mostly like a wild west of developing software - We can't focus on developing new stuff, because we are busy always putting out fires due to poor decision making years ago - Inefficiently ran - Overworked - Old School mentality - Resistant to change - Adding to our technical debt - We talk about the long term, but we are always putting out fires and focusing on the short term - Some tension between Project Staff and Programmers. Not as bad as it used to be, though - Layoffs. The moment revenue goes down, we lay people off!Then we hire people the second revenue goes up. This is kind of good and bad. It's good because it gets rid of poor performers, but once you get rid of all the poor performers, then the good performers jobs are at risk. Obviously, layoffs are overall a bad sign because your job is always at risk. - Work IS your life. There is an illusion of Work/Life balance