How can a once great British company have been destroyed so badly?! - Finance Manager Centrica Employee Review

1.0
Sep 1, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The salary is good if you’re after a comfortable safe life. No one ever gets fired for doing a bad job! No one. So if you are looking for a very well paid company where you can work from home as much as you want and people will not notice if you’re not actually doing anything. Centrica is for you.

Cons

The strategy is a joke. And the people implementing it are not bothered about success because they’ll get their big salaries, bonus and job security at the expense of shareholders. No internal promotion. Any time a vacancy arises they look for external candidates from a hip company. In finance you are constantly asked to fudge the forecasts to make it look like managements view of the truth and then they blame “external headwinds” when it isn’t delivered. Not comfortable doing this.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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