UNRVLD Reviews

4.2

87% would recommend to a friend

(46 total reviews)

Dan Berry

89% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

UNRVLD has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 46 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The UNRVLD employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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46 reviews
3.0
6 Mar 2019
Recommend
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Pros

A solid development team who really know their subject, which makes it great for junior devs who want to improve. The seniors were always happy to spend time with me to help work though problems. The work was challenging and there was a good variety of customers. Every dev is allocated training, but you might have to wait a little while for it On the whole there was a friendly atmosphere. people were friendly and got on with each other. Always lots of discussion going on in the office. Central location. Right next to the park and lots of places to go for lunch They make a big thing about trying to improve the business for staff,and there were lots of opportunities to give feedback The office is pretty nice and modern. The company seems to be doing well. There was always lots of work on

Cons

Chatotic approach to running projects. They follow a confusing half-scrum-half-waterfall process Manipulative project managers who would pressure you to reduce your estimates and then pin the blame it on the devs when the project overran. The atmosphere during projects was sometimes toxic and would bleed in to your homelife No career progression options for devs (a main reason I left). They have team leads and architects, but as far as I could tell these are just vanity titles to stop seniors leaving. If you're a junior then learn your trade and move on. They just do Sitecore, so if you like to dabble in lots of things, then it's probably not your for you Some of the rules like the dress code are outdated

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UNRVLD Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback. It’s good to see that you felt supported by our developers as part of your time here and that you liked the atmosphere, people and location of the office. I’m really sorry that your experience during the project process wasn’t the best. We’ve made a lot of changes in terms of process for projects and spent a lot of time working with project teams to get this right moving forward. We’ve also worked hard on making improvements in the work environment too, which includes dress code and headphones. We’ve listened to the feedback given by the team and implemented changes to benefit everyone. As a small company offering opportunities for senior roles and management level can often be difficult. However, each member of the team as part of their 121 process is given a development plan, which allows for discussion and suggestion for training. This will then feed into the annual training set by the team. Thanks again for writing a review for us.
2.0
16 Dec 2018

Great if your part of the gang

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Town centre location so when you do need to get away from it then there is plenty around you. - Wide variety of projects - the guys that are on the coal face are the real hero’s of this place. - offices are fun with a typical agency styling

Cons

- Management. Hide behind the workers and blame them for their own mistakes - if your not in the “gang” then life can be pretty hard going and unpleasant - don’t follow through with promises - make sure they follow through with the promises they made in your contract. It’s usually made up, hollow promises to try and disguise the below market salary they offer. - expect to be in the office by 9am the morning after an all night deployment. There is no leeway, no remuneration and no appreciation - management have the “it’s your job” attitude even when you go over and above your job role. - HR do not follow up on complaints so wasted time! - travelling time is not classed as work time so even when you are travelling out of hours, there is no compensation for this! - the swapping and changing of projects is never productive. Does not help the moral of staff and produces a sub par project - don’t burn yourself out trying to please management. They don’t believe that’s “a thing”! - the company politics are the worst I have seen in any office I have been in!

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UNRVLD Response
7y
Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback. I am really sorry that your experience at Kagool didn’t match our intention of being the best place you’ve worked. It’s great that you feel that the people are the heroes of Kagool, we pride ourselves on finding the best people to join the team and we have some of the best people working at Kagool. We are taking your feedback and where applicable addressing all the places we missed in delivering a great experience for you.... Thanks also for your advice. We’ve made quite a few changes recently which have helped solve the concerns around project and context shifting by introducing project teams. This has meant that our teams have specific projects that they’re allocated to work on. There will sometimes be cases whereby staff have been asked or made the decision to, put in extra hours in order to see a project or deliverable over the line. This is always greatly appreciated. We try to be as accommodating as possible when offering time back in lieu for any extra time put in, that we feel is over and above what is reasonably expected. And if any complaints are raised they’re taken very seriously and we act accordingly once a thorough investigation has been carried out. We apologise if you felt your complaint was not addressed. Thanks again for your feedback and we will be sure to consider as part of our on-going efforts to make Kagool a great place to work.
2.0
30 Nov 2018

Not great

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Pros

The general team members are great and what make it great to work at Kagool. The Greenfield projects were generally more interesting. Some staff get sent on training.

Cons

No say in what project you get put on, even to the point of it looking like certain more reliable members were nearly always put on the more tedious legacy projects. If you perform well you are generally rewarded with being assigned as someone who rescues projects, while nice to be needed it generally means more stress and longer hours, time which I or anyone else was given back ever while I worked there. Too much politics for my liking, promotions given to the wrong people at times leading to resentment in the teams. No time for progression or self improvement. No headphones Weird clothing rule about no shorts, but skirts and dresses are fine.. not sure if they realised how sexist that is. Very negative attitude towards the staff that hand in their notice, from not inviting you to meetings to simply acting like you aren't there already

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UNRVLD Response
7y
Thanks for the feedback, taking the time to share your thoughts is really appreciated! We're really happy that you valued your fellow Kagoolies and that you found it makes Kagool a great place to work. Picking up on some of the feedback - We are winning more and more greenfield work with the growth of the business. Many customers have traditionally been inherited from poor agencies but we always aim to turn them into exciting ones and this is increasingly the case - We try and ensure all teams get a variety of clients and work. In the case that a team member would like to change or seek challenges in other teams we welcome everyone to put that view or request forward as we will accommodate wherever possible - Work-life balance is constantly fed back as one of the most positive aspects of working at Kagool. Certainly, we try and ensure work is planned well and achievable in a working day. Sometimes a bit more effort is required but we try and ensure this doesn’t happen often and we are always keen to give flexibility back where we can - We don’t think we are a heavy rule-based company and regret you felt that way. Our processes help keep everyone on the same page. We know perhaps headphones are more standard than not but we think it promotes the good communication and the approachability of everyone in the team. We make sure there are quiet spaces for the time you need to get your “head down”. We are clear about this on anyone joining the company to make sure it isn’t an issue. In terms of shorts, members of staff were wearing shorts during the recent hot weather - Training and development – everyone one of our team is currently on plan or due to have training as part of this calendar year - Leavers – we have to be a bit more careful on what we share to leavers on notice as many go to competitors. This is pretty standard in the industry but we do value everyone till the last day. Thanks again for your feedback and we will be sure to consider as part of our on-going efforts to make Kagool a great place to work!
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