Kainos Workday Consultant Reviews

Pros

Flexible working hours that promote a healthy work-life balance. Supportive management and friendly engaging colleagues. Suitable equipment provided for the job. Clear communication from Senior Management/ Executives.

Cons

Progression paths and development plans are not well structured; it's very complex to progress and/or move into a new role in the business. The salary for Associate/ Senior Associate level is significantly under the market rate (when compared to competitors) and the salary bands between Senior Associate and Consultant level have a major void between them. The benefits are generous but there could be more to offer e.g. re-introducing share incentives for employees OR the 'Skills for Me' offering. The above two points need to be worked on as a number of colleagues have left the business because either A) It's easier to move to a new company than it is to move internally, B) Other companies/ competitors are offering enticing salaries that Kainos DO NOT compete with. Across the last year, the culture has shifted significantly. The lack of being in the office and having work events e.g. 'Pay Day Drinks', Christmas do's, Summer BBQ etc. has slightly taken away the united feeling of the team. The company have multiple Diversity and Inclusion networks throughout the company. However, I feel that more could be done to keep employees up-to-date about the goings on of each community and how they can get involved; more internal promotion is needed.

Pros

One of the best CEO's going The people you'll be working with in general are great Will invest in you Great social aspect Ability to move latterly Socially Responsible and give back to the wider community

Cons

Variance in pay between people doing the same job Workday BU as a whole don't share the same corporate values as the wider company (treating people like resources and not people) Management in Workday BU are poor at communicating and people management

Pros

Free fruit and occasional free drinks

Cons

What does workplace culture say about an organization? A lot I think. In Kainos Worksmart there's a poisonous blame culture (especially senior management), chronic overworking, tone deaf approach to staff feedback, no interest in staff career development (but plenty of lip service from the top). CEO is a very nice man who tries to paper over the cracks with a smile and free ice cream but appears impotent when it comes to sorting out the structural problems. Divisional senior management rule the roost and use his speeches on staff wellbeing/customer focus for toilet paper. As the stinking pile grows the corporate leadership flush it away with a smile and a glossy new post on social media.

Pros

- Kainos as a company has a good ethos, we have good top level management (CEO) and I gather other business units don't have the same issues Worksmart has.

Cons

- Senior Management of the Worksmart BU is atrocious: there is a culture of severe overworking, lack of transparency and quite frankly an insidious culture of low-level bullying from senior management. - There attrition rate is stark - something which is disguised by the number of new junior starters as the company grows - but the reality is that of people with more that 1 year's experience as Workday Consultants more than half have resigned within the past year due to the toxic atmosphere. - The pulse surveys from the Business Unit have become an embarrassment; the sad thing is that the issues have all been highlighted to the senior management including above BU Head level and no change has been forthcoming. Talks of improving the situation is.. just that. - You will undoubtedly be overworked and receive no recognition - monetary or otherwise.

Pros

The level of autonomy, my colleagues and the flexible working hours.

Cons

The management changes that have occurred in the Workday business unit in the past year - Kainos is going from being an utterly unique company to work for to a typical Northern Ireland company where the staff are resources and nothing more.