Adelphi Values Reviews

Please bear in mind that I have done my best to review the company as honestly and fairly as possible in accordance with the Glassdoor community guidelines. This review may come across as vitriolic, but it is an honest representation of my experience there. - Contracts and proposals are aggressively pursued with seemingly no consideration given to whether the project can actually be completed or not. - Extremely rapid attrition rate leads to people who are inexperienced ending up in senior roles and quickly burning out in a 'meat grinder of incompetence'. - Overbearing, micromanagement-prone upper management, who simultaneously somehow manage to be incredibly detached despite their constant involvement in projects. - Prone to hiring people with niche, specific roles as a 'trophy' of sorts, then regularly having them do work outside of their area of expertise- e.g. health economists often end up doing menial data entry tasks or medical writing. - Poor work-life balance combined with a toxic office culture where it's insisted that you don't work late, but you realistically have to if you hope to get enough work done. - Bad location unless you live in Cheshire (be warned, recruiters often advertise the company as being in South Manchester when it's actually 22 miles away from the city). - Long probation periods for new hires. - Poor salaries across the board. - MD has fabricated reasons for employees leaving, making it appear as though said employees were driven out as a result of their poor performance, when in reality they left of their own volition. I hope that this review is useful to prospective employees, and that they think carefully before accepting an offer.

This job causes a huge strain on your mental and physical health. Consider being patient and waiting for another job opportunity as it is not worth working here. The hours are ridiculous and are often blamed on the 'busy time of year' (which seemed to be all year round). Employees are made to feel that struggling to keep up with the extremely heavy workload and unrealistic timelines is their own fault and that they are not working hard enough, despite regularly working 10+ hour days. No training is given, even though employees are expected to produce high-quality work in very little time, with minimal experience. The workload given to employees do not allow for basic needs such as going for doctors appointments, receiving vaccines. Any overtime worked is not given in lieu, and rarely even slightly appreciated. When the problematic workload given to employees is raised, management give no solutions except "communicate better", leaving you with the same amount of stress and work to complete. Extremely high turnover of staff. The number of 'goodbye' emails per month is unbelievable. Do not offer equipment to accommodate working from home, many employees work with just a laptop and no screens/keyboards/headsets. This is unusual for such a big company, and also exacerbates the problem of having a heavy workload. Senior management constantly micromanages employees and treats employees like children.