Jee Reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(19 total reviews)

Trevor Jee

78% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Jee has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 19 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Jee 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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19 reviews
1.0
9 Oct 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great crowd of young engineers and enthusiastic Some fantastic people at a personal level Good variety of work but always smaller parcels of work Access to great training courses (but comes at a cost. see comment below**) Salary is above the industry norms

Cons

**Jee remove the cost of training from your salary. So people departing the company leave once their salaries have been paid for the preceding month to make sure there isn't a claw-back on their wages. Jee are selective on who gets penalized for training costs-someone leaving to go to a customer doesn't get hammered. Whereas anyone going elsewhere which won't benefit Jee directly will get hammered for training cost recovery. Training cost recovery is standard in industry but not when the employer forces people to attend internal courses when they are not on billable work. You cant refuse to go on training. Also, its unreasonable (and morally wrong) to try and recover the retail price of courses when these courses carry only internal costs for delivery. Management in Tunbridge leave a lot to be desired. In the time I was with Jee, some of the 'initiatives' dreamed up by marketing beggared belief and went to show there was no real understanding of the oil & gas industry in rural Kent. If more time was spent on chasing and securing business and less time on building processes, then the company would be in a lot better shape than it is today. Jee offered jobs to 8 graduates in 2012 and a few weeks before they were meant to join the company, they were told they were not needed - shocking. Jee paid-off their 2013 graduate intake only 5 months into their contract and this was unforgivable to most of the staff. Probably is one of the reasons there has been a massive exodus from the company in the last few months. Very senior and loyal people have now left the company because of the shocking treatment of staff. No annual bonus paid again this year due to the company not making money claimed Trevor Jee. Staff are not stupid, they know that a "holding parent company" was set-up in 2013 into which massive management charges are paid. Trevor Jee's income last year (y/e April 2014) was reportedly in excess of £720k yet staff got ZERO bonus.

1.0
12 Apr 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great engineering colleagues and mates. - Salary is higher than industry standard (although  the gap seems to be getting narrower) - Get you through your Chartership quickly. - When starting off, you get to work on a variety of projects.

Cons

- Do not care about people - just made 10 people redundant including 4 Graduates yet business has never been better. - Trevor Jee himself is known by many as a greedy, self-serving, egotistical guy and as the 100% owner and runs the company as a dictator would his country. - In all the years working at the company, I have never been invited out for a beer or curry after work or even been given a thank you by the owner. Ok maybe thats not a big deal for some people, but when you are part of a small team that personal touch is all that's sometimes needed. - The company undertakes regular anonomous surveys and Q&A sessions, but NEVER act upon the important findings, or even worse they deliberately HIDE responses. - I don't like lying to my customers and I am often asked about how many people work with you in the office or site. Marketing seems to have a different view of the world as they quote very different staff numbers from reality, all trying  to impress a customer by making themsleves seem bigger than they actually are.  Again, not a big deal as most of our competitors probably do the same but do they do it to the same extent? Jee blatantly lie  the point of total embarrasment.At the time of writing this post, we are still telling customers we have 100 people!!  In Aberdeen we are down to 7 engineers and zero support staff.  London has about 9 engineers and Tonbridge has appx 17 engineers, plus we have 3 or 4 secondees. - So anyone considering a job with Jee would be best to put their time and energy into an alternative employer - this one cannot be trusted further than you can throw them.  Avoid like the plague.

1.0
19 May 2014

Awful company to work for.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very few positives I could give. It's got offices located in good places so good for local commuting purposes. I would also describe the pay as above average. The general working population are really good people to work with.

Cons

Completely agree with the points in the other review. The company bonus scheme is really de motivational as no one has ever received anything (expect maybe the management team who make sure they never miss out). The company has had an excellent growth rate but never quite met the impossible targets (even the board said they should be lowered) so no-one received anything. There is a complete lack of transparency and any negative that happens in the company is shrouded in a massive cover up. Surrounded by secret meetings and whispering that makes any employee nervous. Several people have been essentially forced out because the management team does not like them. Two of the management team in Tonbridge basically run the company - it is certainly not run by Trevor. He listens to everything they say but they don't actually have a clue. Leading to miserable employees who have to deal with constant changes to the plan and adapt to it e.g. last minute new engineering skills to recruit for/promote/find project work for or constant changes on how the bonus is going to work (or not work!). Big company changes are often communicated then changed and re communicated (badly and as late as possible) until everyone is confused. All the misery is swept under the carpet so never actually addressed. Many good people have left the company which is a big loss for Jee but instead of responding to the issues, they are all ignored and the management team would rather find ways to hide the situation or gag the employee than have happy staff and working environment. Work done is never appreciated. Instead a blame culture is rife and extreme micro managing is definitely a problem. This often leads to nothing getting done. I could go on...

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