Pros
A lot of the people are really competent and friendly. They are fairly relaxed about people working from home and there is a good shopping centre near by.
Cons
- Year after year, McKinsey reports reveal that npower's management is autocratic and incommunicative. Nobody disagrees. - Legacy issues aplenty ...SAP is tenuously connected to the live site and it falls over all the time. It screws up everything. - IT ...kit, processes and support are a joke. - It can take 3 months to get a computer and when you get it, it will have most of the useful stuff ripped out. - Managers and the legal department are accountable to no one and they abuse that privilege on every project, usually at the last minute. - There is a road map, with predefined solutions written into it, and deadlines. Just get on with it, adding value is not part of the job. - When npower says 'MVP', npower means 'kludge'. - npower talks a lot about Agile. npower pretends it does Agile. npower doesn't do Agile. It won't happen, ever. - 120 desks ➗ 180 people ...go figure. - Your days consist of numerous meetings. Less than 10% of meeting content is relevant, less than 1% is interesting, but you have to attend. - Look out for the weekly 'stand-up' involving over a hundred people where only eight people talk - Expect to get pressured to work over the weekend, for free (the so-called 'weekend warriors'). The pressure is outrageous "...you'll let the entire team down if you don't"; "....npower's recovery is dependent on this going live this weekend" - This list could go on a lot longer