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      Technical Drive Reviews

      3.5

      56% would recommend to a friend

      (38 total reviews)

      Simon Cole

      56% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Compensation and benefits

      3.3

      Culture and values

      3.3

      Senior management

      3.1

      Diversity and inclusion

      Technical Drive has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 38 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Technical Drive employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      38 reviews
      2.0
      7 Feb 2020

      An honest take on Technical Drive

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      The technical team is fantastic. They have the highest skill set that I have seen and are amazingly friendly. They work together and make sure that a job is done well.

      Cons

      The CEO, Simon, seems to have some form of god complex. He runs the company through fear. People watch the CCTV to see when he is coming into the building, warning everyone when he does. Everyone puts on a fake face and is incredibly nice to him in fear of losing their job. Which brings me to the point of job security; everyone at technical drive is constantly scared about losing their job. I've seen people break down over small mistakes because they think they're going to lose their job. During my time there, I was more stressed than I have ever been. And you cannot complain the the HR department because it doesn't exist. On top of all this, the IT company is run by sales people who have no clue about IT. The know how to make money but are constantly messing things up due to lack of knowledge or confusion and then put the blame on the IT team. They have no clue what they're doing. And when they do, they only do things that are "profitable" for them, trying to get the highest commission bonus possible. Overall technical drive needs to be run differently. It is an IT company run by sales people who have no clue and the CEO is a sociopath with a god complex

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      Technical Drive Response
      5y
      This is totally untrue. No-one is scared of me in Technical Drive as demonstrated through the amazing technical team that you have described. I am not sure that a team run through fear comes across as frinedly, helpful and together. The CCTV story is completely untrue and total fantasy. We are also a quality ISO 9001 accreditied organisation which provides for peole to have any grievances heard . With regard to the sales team, they are told specifically not to sell anything they would not do them selves and by this I mean to only sell what works NOT the solution that makes the most money. I am concerned that this wasn't communicated to this particular person as it is clear they have the wrong end of the stick as this is not we do. It is a pity that this person left this review anonymously as I would have loved the opportuntiy to have addressed their concerns directly. I have no understanding what a 'god complex' is, but I imagine it means I can do what I want, wehn I want. As a boss, this is defintely not the case and looking afteremployees and being responsible for them is a responsibility I take very seriously.
      1.0
      6 Feb 2019

      Not as amazing as they make it seem

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      The employees are amazing people, couldnt fault them.

      Cons

      Incredibly high turnover - in the time I was there, at least half of the workforce (that i can remember) were let go or left and then replaced. Non-existent HR department- quite literally they have no HR. Constantly overworked - they were bringing in more clients than we could handle, promising things we frankly couldn't deliver. Management run the business like its a much bigger company than it actually is For an IT company, it was run by people with very limited IT knowledge, usually leading to us having to clean up their mess as best as we could. They never liked to let anyone go in person, they usually waited until they were on holiday and then sent them an email.

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      Technical Drive Response
      5y
      Once again, I find it rather unfair that this has been left anonymously, not allowing me to respond whilst being accused of being unfair myself. I will not be able to address this person's grievances specifically, however, I cannot remember a time when half the workforce was replaced as the clients would surely notice this and we would fail as a business. As it is we have a very happty client base, employee team and have been in business 13 years!
      1.0
      10 May 2022

      greedy man

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      the helpdesk team and free pizza once a month

      Cons

      He is the worst person I have met and people talk! Lost count how many people I saw being sacked or let go for no good reason. Each month there would be the MD's new flavour: usually whichever woman there was wearing the shortest dress or showing the most cleavage or whoever has fake laughed the most at his jokes and each month there was someone new in his bad books to pick on Business philosophy outdated, made up job titles, bodged jobs, the business is a cash cow for the MD through ripping businesses off

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