Pros
Close to home, Monday to Friday hours.
Kontras
Redcentric has no people ethics whatsoever. Loyalty and time served is ultimately rewarded with redundancy. For a number of years now all the business has focused on is what it pays its staff, views them as nothing more than an inconvenient business cost & not what keeping hold of them could potentially earn them. Redcentric has been shedding itself of its most committed, most knowledgeable employees since the news of their £20,000,000 accounting black hole broke, ultimately losing the people who made the business function successfully and making them pay the price for a level of deception rarely seen in modern day business. It is of absolutely no coincidence whatsoever that the continued acceleration of Redcentric's failure is directly tied to the ongoing loss of knowledgeable and GOOD people. Individuals the company soullessly has proven time and again it simply does not value. My review may look like it's been written by a bitter ex-employee who feels hard done by but nothing could be further from the truth. I enjoyed working at Redcentric for a long time, despite the pitiful wage because I liked the job spec & genuinely believed my loyalty to the business would be recognized and acknowledged with a fair wage. Sadly, only in making me redundant with a favorable payout did Redcentric finally show me the value they failed to show me in their employment. As with every other department in the past 12 months or so, Redcentric deemed there to be too many staff in my team and determined the 'fairest' way to cut the numbers in our department was obligate us into re-interviewing for our jobs. No consideration was given to time spent with the company, nor the obvious superior skill sets of individuals within the team. Upon challenging my selection for potential redundancy & having my request denied to be removed from the process on this basis, I determined that I would be interviewing elsewhere and immediately turned down the despicable option of re-interviewing for my own job. Had I lowered myself to re-interview for a job I fought hard to secure almost a decade ago, I would have left my self-respect in that interview room for the rest of my life. Only upon re-writing and updating my CV at this stage did I realize just how strong my skillset actually was. So strong in fact, that I secured a new job at the very first external interview I attended with a 50% increase on my Redcentric salary. I can only define my experience with Redcentric as an abusive relationship. I was taken for granted, produced solution designs that made the business hundreds of thousands of pounds and was never rewarded or recognized for my obvious strengths. You keep hoping you will be, that the job role will get better, but it never does. Many of the staff there are so stuck in a rut, bottle-necked into working there that they don't seem capable of looking outside the boxed in depression this place drags you down to. I must admit to being guilty of exactly the same issue. If your employer doesn't value you, it's not easy to value yourself in such a toxic working environment. To those staff I can only say it doesn't get better, it's only going to get worse & when you do leave you will look back on that decision as one of the best of your career.