Pros
Most of the upper management are so unbelievably incompetent they have no idea what their staff are doing, so you could probably just surf by doing absolutely nothing as long as you had some good excuses. Also no one understands any of the systems so it doesn't matter of you aren't qualified or even literate, no one is going to notice
Cons
Platform recently announced they were moving to a banded salary system, to great rejoicing from staff who had been trapped under a glass ceiling for years. We were told all jobs would be assessed and we would then be assigned to bands. It wasn't until after this had taken place we were told that A. This wasn't pay bands, it was a salary restructuring and bands would never move again, even if you worked there forever. This was raised at our laughably powerless employee forum (where we're invited to air our grievances and then get told to shut up and like it because otherwise they can replace us) and the response was "well, we can always find someone else to do your job just as well - loyalty and hard work is meaningless, you're a wage slave to us and nothing more. We don't care if you die in this place." I'm paraphrasing slightly but regardless... Of course, extremely senior management walked away with massive pay rises as a result of this exercise, while everyone below them paid for it. I cannot think of a more offensively money grabbing, vile, self centred, incompetent, hateful pit of a place to work. Don't expect it to be Platform long though - every time they get some bad press they merge and pretend the old organisation doesn't exist, just check the reviews on here for Waterloo Housing if you don't believe me