Pros
Friendly people in the ranks who genuinely try their best but are very, very frustrated
Cons
'Project Fear' A fear factor runs through the business down from the CEO who controls everything and from what I am told, even senior management fear any outbursts and just keep their heads down. The payments and data markets have huge potential but the guys that were the brains behind it have left and anyone with new ideas gets extremely frustrated and leaves or just keeps quiet and takes their pay cheque. The business is going now-where whilst this continues and the relatively new FD is not experienced enough but also does not appear to have the gravitas to change anything. We keep being told that the reason for the poor results and low share price is that the UK sales has been the major issue and that costs will need to be cut or bonuses not paid..... but the CEO has been driving that part of the business directly himself but no one has the nerve to raise it! It does seem a strange situation, as usually this amount of power only happens when the CEO owns the business, so I am unsure as to how this came about and what the shareholders are doing? I write this as a very very small option holder and I have concluded that, unless real change is made, that I will not get much, if anything, back given what people tell me is a very lofty share price. I apologise to colleagues as sometime back someone also wrote quite a blunt review and people were all called in individually and in groups and asked whether we agreed....clearly we all said that we didn't agree and I assume this will happen again but these things have to be aired and thanks goodness for Glassdoor.