As a current employee of Pepper UK for several years, must be said this is the worst company I have ever worked for, mainly for the following reasons:
1. Management seem to be very cliquey, you will only get promoted if you are in the "in crowd" so lots of favouritism and no fair opportunities
2. HR appear to be incompetent and unapproachable for even the simplest of tasks.
3. HR tend to only side with Senior Management rather than deal with employee grievances (lazy!)
4. Awards are completely biased to HR Personnel - I don't remember voting for "Employee of the Year"! Also, seems a bit too coincidental that HR are winning all the prizes for competitions that they administer - Fix!
5. The CEO seems disengaged with the business
6. Very poor IT infrastructure and softwares
7. The culture is getting worse and slowly declining
8. Apart from a few individuals I generally HATE coming to work, but I have to pay rent, so is and always will be a means to an end. No progression at all.
9. Massive levels of hypocrisy in the business
10. As a female, feel the business environment is very catty making it very unpleasant to work in
11. Employees are always undervalued and undercut , driven by those determining salaries.
12. No transparency of pay and grades e.g. People doing the same jobs will be paid very differently and those who are incapable are kept on higher pay
13. Benefits and location are poor compared to other financial services. No car park available for must pay for your own parking which is fifteen mins walk
Lots of people are leaving as they are being driven out by managers, given no option.
Also as a non-ethnic, I feel appalled that there have been some racial undertones by management.
