Pros
Work life balance is ok as long as not delivering, other wise it's go go go. Working from home is helpful.
Cons
CityFibre promote a great ethos however, with the fundamentals we need to do our thing. Potentially long hours / paternal cultures, low pay and rate of change not rolled out with consideration to high pressure imposed on employees unnecessarily impacting their wellbeing, stress and anxiety levels. They promise the world with changes coming, improvement in processes, training, progression etc. etc. but I'm yet to see anything significant come of it after being here for 2 years. Too much focus on building the network and not enough on maintaining what they've already got or stopping to create a foundation of process and consistency. On paper should have been a great company to work for but over expanded too quickly during a pandemic without effectively interviewing staff. As a result, wrong people in wrong positions and management just as inept as the contractors. No job satisfaction whatsoever as no consequence to those who fail to deliver, contractors continue to produce poor quality that demands CF last minute intervention causing unnecessary rework and stress on city teams, no processes or consistency - everything is always urgent. In continual online meetings and updating duplicate information across numerous spreadsheets and databases; whilst trying to chase up people for information. Always being caught between the PM and the CBM with no job satisfaction, no set deliverables or ownership of anything. Spent unnecessary volumes of time on last minute tasks continually putting make believe dates on a spreadsheet just to satisfy head office. Poor compliance and quality. Second rate contractors being pushed to deliver a failed build, whilst compliance and quality is swept under the carpet to meet CityFibre’s targets. Cityfibre are well aware of the issues regarding poor compliance and quality, yet choose to ignore it CF don’t care about the legacy of defects contractors leave across the city or the quality of the network, only interested in numbers and RFS - not how they get it. Issues raised fall on deaf ears! A Network built on poor quality and compliance, a failure waiting to happen! Low staff moral, poor salary and they wonder why everyone is resigning!
