Only take the job if you have no other options. - werkgeversreview IT Support bij ClearCourse

1,0
25 feb 2025
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Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

It is possible to leave.

Minpunten

This company buys successful businesses like the one I worked for, so that they can grow them to the next level. However, I did not see a single business which got better after being acquired. The usual course of events is that all the company procedures will be centralized to teams which have no knowledge of the business and destroy the relationship with the customers. Members of those central teams change regularly. Your local admin staff will go in one of the multiple rounds of redundancies which seem to come twice a year. Many of the support queries became dealing with complaints about appalling admin and billing with phone enquiries and emails going unanswered. Then they will get you to force your customers onto the in house payment platform (Clear Accept) by making you drop support for any other. Look up ClearAccept on Trustpilot. This will also often alienate formerly happy customers further. Later, the rounds of redundancies will sweep up your support teams apart from one (maybe two) people to ensure all the product knowledge is lost. The people or person left will be abandoned to deal with the fallout with the managers sitting in their ivory towers ignoring pleas for help. The management teams are very much of the Sunday League caliber but they think they are Premiere League. Endless meetings gazing at their navels and congratulating themselves while the front line fight fires. You will get regular all hands meetings so the senior managers can tell you what a great place you work for, I think your experience will tell you a different story.

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2,0
26 jun 2026
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Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

There are some genuinely talented and dedicated colleagues across the business who care deeply about customers and support one another. I learned a great deal during my 10+ years with EKM and had opportunities to develop my skills, lead a fantastic team and build strong relationships with customers.

Minpunten

In my experience, the culture changed significantly over time following acquisitions and organisational restructuring - following the buyout to ClearCourse. Communication became increasingly top-down, with frequent changes to priorities, targets and commission structures. Employee wellbeing often felt secondary to commercial objectives. During periods of organisational change, I found consultation and communication lacking, and decisions sometimes appeared to have been made before employee feedback had been fully considered. Returning from a period of ill health was particularly challenging, as I did not feel adequately supported despite occupational health recommendations. Recognition for teams delivering excellent customer outcomes felt inconsistent, while pressure and uncertainty continued to increase. Long-serving employees may find that loyalty is not always reflected in how they are treated during periods of change. Pay and rewards were not adequate, given the specific skillsets required. Teams were promised benchmarking to bring pay in line but it never materialised and they were made redundant. It felt wrong that employees in Expert roles were still on minimum wage with 5yrs + service!!

3,0
11 jun 2026
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Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

- Colleagues and their competences - Great opportunity (unfortunately wasted) to develop many products. Mainly competent and professional co-workers. The management team, at the half of my co-period - MESS AS ..#%*~{} Generally gr8 and nice atmosphere (if we talked about teammates). The management staff and their replacement in the middle of my "CC career" is a mistake!!! Whole place was crapped and going to the negative direction.

Minpunten

- Incompetence of management in the second cooperation period - Lack of time tracking and blaming this obligation on lower-level employees (pathetic, no comment) - Lack of development opportunities in terms of working conditions and salary (mainly during the second period of cooperation).

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Thanks for leaving us a review - we’re glad that you’ve got some positive experiences to share around having great colleagues (we think so too!) but sorry to hear about the latter half of your time with us. We’d love to better understand some of the experiences you talk about – so if you’re comfortable please do reach out to me directly and we can chat further - jbrain@clearcourse.co.uk.
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