Serco - Anyone work for them?

Very, it was my first job after leaving college and i stayed there for around 2 years, the only reson i left was because i'd outgrown my role, but there was no where else for me to move to as the company was only very small back then, but i understand it has grown significantly since then so that shouldn't be a problem these days.

When i was there, there were a lot of young and socialable people, we had a good crowd going and i had some good times there.
 
Mikey said:
It would be IT near Fareham..
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I left Serco about 6-7 months ago now, doing IT (not in Fareham )

its good for experience, but its not the sort of job you can stay there for over five years, i might of just been on a poor contract. Its hard to say if a large \ huge company is good to work for, as each department is totally different
 
Mikey said:
sounds like a similar problem
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how you mean? :)

from my past experience, you cant spend a long time in a large organisations due to getting bored as its just the same thing day in, day out

smaller companys are much better as you have exposure to everything, the payrises are usually a lot higher, and you dont get treated as a number :)
 
use to work for serco.the best company ever to date.... use to get stupid pay rises, talking 12%, and the cristmas / easter /any holiday do's were great, and free (ie food enterance and beer), even had go-carting. if you needed something you had it next day.
happy days, would like 12% this year but not even got 3% well actually not got anything yet as they cant decide what were all worth,but should be 3% I need more damn it.


bullit
 
Quite a lot of the guys I work with are ex Serco, we're public sector and used to have our IT outsourced through them. Then they brought it back in house and the guys who were working on the contract took the perm roles. I get the impression that as a 'customer' of Serco they weren't the best at things, but imagine they are ok to work for.
 
Serco have just taken over a contract I work on from the company I work for.

They undercut us on the re-bid by (supposedly) 7 million pounds. Apprarently, they will be making big losses on this and hope to make money back through project work, so it shows just how deperate they are for IT contracts. A lot of my colleagues will be moving over to Serco soon as part of the TUPE process. I'm glad I'm not one of them.
 
R0B75 said:
Serco have just taken over a contract I work on from the company I work for.

They undercut us on the re-bid by (supposedly) 7 million pounds. Apprarently, they will be making big losses on this and hope to make money back through project work, so it shows just how deperate they are for IT contracts. A lot of my colleagues will be moving over to Serco soon as part of the TUPE process. I'm glad I'm not one of them.
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sounds like the contract i worked on :p
 
FishThrower said:
how you mean? :)

from my past experience, you cant spend a long time in a large organisations due to getting bored as its just the same thing day in, day out

smaller companys are much better as you have exposure to everything, the payrises are usually a lot higher, and you dont get treated as a number :)
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I am at a competitor of theirs at the moment..
 
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