Poor IT strategy - Anonymous employee Currys Employee Review

2.0
Aug 5, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fantastic people to work with, good collaboration between people on projects with a clearly defined goal. Some really knowledgeable but underutilised people who genuinely know what they are talking about.

Cons

CEO's favourite line is 'Capable and Committed Colleagues' when the reality is you're just a number waiting to be ticked off a balance sheet. VERY experienced people's jobs are outsourced and moved offshore with very little handover leaving everyone else to fend for themselves. The place is very outsource heavy, Accenture, Mindtree, SoftServe, BJSS, InfoSys, IBM just to name a few, with very blurred lines between. There's so much hot air and things move at a snails pace with hardly anything getting done. Management are oblivious to the problems on the ground when joining a single call will tell them everything they need to know about why so many projects are delayed or mothballed. They have a quarterly 'Pulse' survey where colleague feedback has been ignored or brushed under the carpet for years. As a Currys veteran, sadly, I completely lack confidence in the IT transformation strategy.

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Currys Response
2y
Hi there, Thank you for leaving a review. We're glad to hear you value the team environment. Thank you for your review. We value your feedback and we wanted to take a moment to respond to your points. In our retail stores we do have targets to achieve, but our focus is on the customer. By offering the right product ranges and services for their needs, we are making our customers happy and achieving store performance targets. We are here to help our customers enjoy amazing technology and have been investing in staff training. At a lot of our stores and sites, we have introduced schemes such as ‘babble boards’ and feedback boxes to help provide an easy way of giving anonymous feedback straight to senior leaders. We also encourage all our colleagues to have an open and honest conversation with HR to solve any concerns. Thanks, the team at Currys.

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