A great idea, poorly executed by greedy morally bankrupt leadership - Anonymous employee Netomnia Employee Review

2.0
18 Jun 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

remote working, nice people, fairly good salaries

Cons

Chaos. Know-it-all, arrogant, micromanaging, self-absorbed CEO, surrounded by mostly "If you can't beat'm, join'm" characters in the leadership team. Company basically bullies good, ambitious, smart young people into working as many hours as possible over and above their contracted hours (unpaid) to get every bit of value out of obviously understaffed teams (the CEO's repeatedly stated reasoning being that salaries are better than the competition and that he is graciously giving employees shares in his unicorn of a business). Countless people burn out and leave or get fired for "not being good enough", while some stay and try to prove they deserve to join the inner circle, get promoted and hang in for dear life, suffering countless indignities (like direct insults on conference calls from the CEO), in hope of getting their shares, one day. Leadership is solely interested in short-term gain and accelerated growth to take advantage of current M&A market conditions and investor appetite for the UK fibre space. It's evident by the complete lack of interest in setting up good foundations for systems and operations and wanting to run everything on a shoe string for as long as possible, knowing full well it's not sustainable and that it does not set the organisation up for long-term operational sustainability. The mode of operation at Netomnia is going from one fire to the next fire, to the next after that and so on. Wherever burns hottest, gets leadership attention and everything is slowly but surely igniting as time passes. It is fascinating from the outside looking in, but quite hellish from within.

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1.0
25 Apr 2026
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Pros

Company provided free fuel card

Cons

Working here feels like being on a never-ending episode of ‘How Much Can We Squeeze Into One Day?’—£34k a year to smash out 5 jobs daily like you’re on some sort of telecoms game show. Travel time? Basically a scenic tour of the UK… unpaid, of course. No splicers, so you’re out here improvising like Bear Grylls with fibre. Management and supervisors bring a certain… chaotic energy—keeps things interesting if nothing else. If you’ve ever wondered what being treated like a price worker feels like without actually being paid like one, this is the place to find out.

1.0
21 Jan 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Management were clear with what they wanted

Cons

Unrealistic targets, management would splash a lot of cash, but not actually change anything

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