Pros
- People are generally friendly - Central London office in soho - Opportunities to change roles even if it's a completely different skill set (can also go to explain why some end up in completely unqualified positions / management style impacted). - They have virtually no real competitor and they know it. Your customers have to sign up to them as they've massively cornered the market (thus believing their own hype / arrogance). - Hybrid role (2 days in office, 3 days at home)
Cons
- Awkward office location for Milton Keynes (nothing there - alongside an out of centre A-road. Not even a restaurant or place to eat / drink - also far away from a viable train station). - They pretend their customers love "working with" Rightmove and their product offering is something special. Everyone knows this is nonsense and estate agents have to pay for being on the site because everyone else is. - Appalling "ivory tower" pushy style management. Far removed from reality - just dictating top down that more can and will be delivered under unrealistic deadlines (plucked from the sky by the looks of it). You'll rarely see them - but always hear they want more and sooner. - Management will work you to the bone - literally. Blood from a stone mentality. You are a "valued" resource that is to be used. - Odd cult-like environment. I feel like in the Truman show at times where everyone is trying to be a "Rightmover" (whatever that means) and somehow they are constantly acting mega positive, happy people - far removed from reality (burnout, clueless pushy management, under resourced and always recruiting, changing direction all the time, projects that should take years expected to be done in weeks / months, etc). - They behave like a naive start up but are a FTSE 100 company. Close to 1000 employees - you get bombarded by emails, instant messages, meeting invites about teams and subjects nothing to do with you. They expect people to randomly stop everything to help out other teams like they're just 20 odd people in a room (i.e. startup). This of course rarely happens because the company is bigger than this small company mentality enables - i.e. "if you can just help out this other team over there...but you're still expected to deliver for your own team". - Revolving door with recruitment. I've seen people join and leave on their probation period - they quickly saw what they signed up for and wisely ran. - I cannot emphasise just how much they try hard to extract everything they possibly can from you - all shrouded in a cult like vail that everyone holds hands with the "one team one dream" thing going on. As others have stated in their reviews, its an unhealthy environment with fakeness oozing and everyone pretending everything is sunshine and rainbows the entire time. Don't expect any reward for your efforts - that's only for the chosen few alongside shareholders. - It's just a weird place to be. On the one hand it's "but why is this also not done despite giving you 50 things to do this week" and on the other it is "hey everyone, you are all welcome to join us to watch a movie in the office on a Friday night. Lets all put on our Rightmove t-shirts and sing songs (not joking)"...bizarre. Go home and have a life people! it's just a job - this is insane and cult like. - If you're a sales person, expect your role to eventually be automated. That's the end goal here - why pay people when we can have customers doing it themselves online with AI doing some of the work. - The management has a mentality of "we need 3 people to realistically do this properly. 2 you may get away with if you want them to grumble and be fairly unhappy, however we will just employ 1 person to do it all because those extra 2 will take away from our profits...which we want in our senior management / shareholder pockets". They will work those people / person to the bone. - Company brags about the level of profit they rake in each year (tens of millions) yet under invest in the company and complain they struggle to recruit for some roles (i.e. we refuse to pay to obtain those we say we need) - so where is the money going? - MK office is pretty poor for a company that makes multiple millions every year. Every meeting room i go in there are stained cloth chairs and carpets, broken cables you have to plug into your laptop so you can share your screens during meetings. The building next to it is by a much smaller company i've never heard of - their office is stunning and modern. Shame on you Rightmove.
