Hive Reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(78 total reviews)

37% positive business outlook

Hive has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 78 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hive employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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78 reviews
2.0
23 Jan 2020

Weak management culture

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Pros

The pay and pension arrangements are good.

Cons

Non-existent/evasive HR function. Bullying culture - not only accepted but rewarded - senior managers shouting at and abusing employees in public - information hiding - setting up individuals to fail. Incredibly weak management - always politicking. No leadership at all - job title is everything, competence not required. No internal succession planning - promotion by filling "dead men's shoes" - no training, no preparation, just whoever is most visible to a senior manager. Hence the politicking and bullying.

2.0
30 Nov 2018

Was great for first three years, now awful

Anonymous employee
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Pros

In the early days, when Hive was distinct from centrica, it was a great place to work. A few misteps in agile and a lack of direction in senior management but generally fun, innovative, and with a positive culture. That's all gone now but the central london offices are good.

Cons

Centrica didn't know what they had and killed Hive by taking over and applying its own obsolete mentality to what was a promising start-up. Nowadays Hive is Centrica with a better logo.

2.0
19 Sept 2019

Careening into the rocks

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Pros

Really friendly place with good benefits

Cons

The senior management don't have a clue. The strategy changes every three months. Important decisions are made on a whim and with no consideration of the implications. We are having another round of redundancies now with 40% of the staff going, but the targets (which we couldn't hit before) are unchanged. There is no way this is going to end well.

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