BT Group Reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(10,809 total reviews)
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Allison Kirkby

73% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

BT Group has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 10,809 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BT Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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11K reviews
1.0
17 Aug 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Initially, a great company to work for. Customers' business came first. Innovative solutions that genuinely were built to assist customers and great career prospects to advance. People would support your endeavours. If you were a profitable revenue generator you were supported.

Cons

BTGS has lost sight of what is important both internally and externally. The analogy I use to describe BTGS is, "It used to be a Michelin Star Restaurant, you would prepare a bespoke meal for the customer because they paid a high price for the service and the brand, now they still want to charge the high price but provide Macdonalds service and offering. The Brand value has been diluted with poor service". The service delivery capability is debilitating to customer's business, imagine waiting more than a year for a service to be delivered. Products and services are smoke and mirrors, they do not exist except on a powerpoint presentation. They have lost a key differentiator to the competition which was experienced people and collaborative culture. The bureaucracy absolutely conflicts with generating profitable business, hindering service delivery and in-turn impacting customer sentiment. I know of global accounts that have lost 35-40% of their revenue as customers move their business to better service providers. They have replaced high experienced resources with in-experienced resources and it shows. The culture used to support the brightest minds, encouraged innovation and supported diversity, now it has become a culture of intimidation and harassment where you could get a poor performance rating for not sitting with your manager...in a hot desk environment.

1.0
22 May 2015

Upper management Is probably still dreaming

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility in terms of work location. Medical benefits are top-notched. People are friendly.

Cons

Laying off people in a bid to reduce costs in a time when there isn't enough people to even bid for more projects. Targets get higher and higher without proper consideration if resources are there to complete them.

1.0
3 Apr 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice (new) office Good brand name for those who does not know about this company (large organisation etc)

Cons

Continuous cost cutting, including hiring in low cost countries and terminating employees in non-low cost countries (to save cost). But they did not consider the "quality" issue. So many employees are made redundant each month. It is even worse if they hire someone and in less than a year make them redundant. Everything is outsourced, nothing is left in the country, no future working here unless you are located in a low cost country Poor leader making all sorts of wrong decisions, wrong focus.

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