CPI Reviews

Wages for qualified and experienced people are so poor as to frankly be an insult. No/limited career progression within the business. Nepotism and cronyism are rife here, if you're not related or married to someone higher up you will struggle to progress. If someone is half as qualified for the role you are going for but they are friends with the hiring manager then they will get the job over you, every single time. CPI will actively seek to halt your progression within the business by blocking you from moving to other roles or departments so they don't have to pay you what you're worth. If you do secure an internal promotion you will only ever be able to increase your salary by 10%, even if the salary for your new role is advertised far in excess of that amount. Any attempt to increase your wages will see you ostracised by your peers and made fun of.

Pay rises are based entirely on performance, rather than a portion being due to inflation, and a portion for performance. Pay rises for 2024/25 were calculated in June 2024, and backdated to April 2024, probably so that the news would be communicated after national inflation had gone down. Performing below expected: 2 %, Performing as expected: 4 %, Performing above expectations: 6 %. inflation for that period has been reported as 7.3 %; everyone got a real terms pay cut. There are no bands within the salary ranges, your position within that range is not anchored. You can put all your effort into moving up the salary range, for them to be reassessed and end up back at the bottom of the range for your job, despite all the improvements, progression, extra responsibilities, etc. Progression is as clear as mud, staff want clarity and transparency. The "competencies" list is written in corporate jargon, that is intentionally vague, leaving interpretation up to the individual, and making performance reviews inconsistent across managers and teams. Distil the job roles down, and make the expectations transparent and written in plain terms. The CPI "PRIDE" values have nothing to do with the LGBTQ+ community, and using that word is piggybacking on the efforts of other people for the sake of gaining clout. Suggestions were made for alternative acronyms by the LGBTQ+ affinity group and were ignored by senior management.