- I don't think our CEO really knows how bad things are at the grass roots.
- There is a big gap between the PR spin of this being a top 100 place to work at, and what its really like working here.
- During an average working day the unprofessional whatsapp messaging within the Bristol team was really bad. There was lots of inappropriate sexist comments, pictures and bad language that made female staff feel uncomfortable. Nothing was ever done to stop it.
-My bosses laddish approach and the rude dismissive way he spoke to most women was the thing I really struggled with. It made me feel uncomfortable.
- There are very few women in senior roles compared with most other engineering firms. In that way Hydrock is very old fashioned. I know that many women feel undervalued and second class.
- I was surprised to find a lot of people working here seem to treat it as a paid holiday. My boss used to turn up at work wearing shorts, t shirt and beach shoes. Many of the team followed this. It was so unprofessional and clients found it disrespectful.
- A lot of long serving staff here spend their days chatting, in the pub going to events or supposed business development. That just heaped pressure on those of us sat at our desks who had to work even harder to hit client deadlines. This meant the work home life balance at Hydrock was poor. I felt taken for granted and overworked.
- Pay levels are way behind industry levels. Lots of people leave to move to a rival consultancy for more. And bonus levels are poor so there is no motivation to work hard. I felt overworked and underpaid.
-Career progress is patchy and shaped by the personal bias of divisional leads. They look after their best mates, not the people who do the work. There is lots of false promise about what you need to do to get promoted which when you achieve it is then not delivered.
- I found Hydrock to be a unrewarding place to work. Whilst there were some great projects to work on, and some people were nice, I hated the sexist and unprofessional culture and the laddish culture.
That's why I left. If you are a female engineer I would think very carefully before I joined Hydrock.
