Computacenter Reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,511 total reviews)
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Mike Norris

84% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Computacenter has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,511 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Computacenter employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
14 Jan 2018

Worrying

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Training and development offered to help you do the best you can in your role. Expenses paid, company car. Lots of opportunities for career growth.

Cons

All the above is available if your manager is a professional individual. I began as a graduate with high hopes - this was my first proper job after finishing university. I really applied myself, stayed long hours to finish work and couldn't understand why my feedback was so shocking. My manager would regularly crush my confidence pointing out I need to sit up straighter, that I apparently looked bored. They would compare me to other colleagues “Look at them and then look at you”. I left one of these meetings in tears. I was compared to the same colleagues who would take cigarette breaks every 30 minutes, claimed back double their expenses and strolled into work late and left early. After weeks of continuous horrendous feedback (which did not make sense) I stopped eating properly and could not sleep at night. I was then approached by a manager advising me I was in the firing line and to look for another job as soon as possible. This same manager advised me my own manager had specifically asked them to provide BAD FEEDBACK and I was in no position to challenge them. I could see they empathised me with and felt helpless. What could I do? I had no proof, no one willing to come forward and approach HR with me. It became evident after this conversation that the entire department knew what was happening to me and this was not the first time someone had been pushed out. I was then brought into a meeting room and practically forced to hand in my resignation. I was left jobless. It was only until I logged on the system to put through my final expenses I received an e-mail containing all the original feedback - which was amazing and not corrupted! If only I had this document a few hours earlier… Long story short I was bullied out of a promising start in my career. What worries me is that most of the senior managers knew what was happening to me but did not step forward to avoid any trouble.

1.0
10 Sept 2014

Breaking rocks in the IT Gulag

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A gristle pit of grunt work backed up by the most horrific specimins of middle management know to mankind. Free coffee though

Cons

Not shooting yourself on monday morning.

1.0
22 Sept 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The building keeps you dry when it's raining

Cons

If you are reading this thinking about enrolling on the sales associate program, I would recommend you save your energy for something else. The program is basically classroom learning, presenting and "shadowing i.e. annoying" different people around the business for 18 months until you pass and get given a minuscule account to manage. During my time here, I was told to wear heels (lol yes really), wear my hair up and one archaic director even corrected me on how I held a knife and fork. The directors are the rudest bunch of people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting - obsessed with their own egos and business politics. At the end of the program, if they don't think "you're one of them", you are at the mercy of the job market or shoved in a mediocre role elsewhere in the business. The bad thing is as well, that your time at CC means nothing to the job market - you haven't closed any deals, you haven't built any relationships or applied any knowledge to architecting a solution so you are just as inexperienced in their eyes as you were when you left university. My advice for anyone looking to get into IT sales is to target one of the mid-sized IT firms, work your bottom off and enter enterprise level when you've got some decent experience and the klout to demand a decent basic. Do not waste your time on these programs as you gain nothing practical from them at all - you just get brainwashed into thinking this sexist, medieval corporate culture is the norm whereas there are so many businesses flourishing and embracing people's individuality. Good luck!

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