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Virgin media (Former Employee) - Wythenshawe, Cheshire - 14 January 2022
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The most useful review selected by IndeedWorked at virgin media for 5 years it was a great place to work would highly recommend. Job is to answer calls and sell virgin products to customers. Commission is uncapped so you can earn as much as you want.
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Very demanding and often frustrating job
Residential Field Technician (Former Employee) - South - 20 January 2022
See my detailed and comprehensive lists of pros and cons.This is a very demanding, often frustrating, frequently stressful job. The hours are long, it’s hard work, and it’s not as rewarding as I expected it to be. The company is constantly pushing an over enthusiastic, “everything is awesome” message which does not reflect reality and gets rather tiresome. You’ll be working your backside off when others are getting paid for filming themselves larking about and posting it on Workplace (a business social media app owned by Meta, aka Facebook).Pros Time off - working 37.5 hours a week across four days therefore getting three days off per week including a five-day rest period every third weekend, Overtime always available and paid at time-and-a-half, Many ways to earn money on top of basic salary through performance incentives, Good team culture - technicians do help each other in the mainCons Long shifts (10 hours) with 7pm finishes on most days, requirement to book leave across the year during times when you do not necessarily want to take it, due to “the needs of the business” and difficulty booking leave during peak times, out-of-area working at very short notice, and managers do not really care about technicians from other teams who are working in their areas, overtime is expected from all technicians, rigorous heavily monitored performance culture with some targets that are extremely difficult to achieve and that technicians are not always able to effect whilst still being measured against them, blame culture - don’t make a mistake as you likely won’t be backed by -
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Great place to work
Project administrator (Former Employee) - Sheldon - 19 January 2022
Great company with fun and supportive team. Excellent training provided regarding processes and software, normal break times, canteen, secure car park offered.
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DPD Delivery Driver (Former Employee) - dddd - 17 January 2022
they were fun bright love to be ok iand what else would u want good work and enjoyment love to fly and have a good time but thats all you want in a good
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Collaborative and interesting workplace with development opportunities.
Business Analyst (Current Employee) - London, Greater London - 9 January 2022
Collaborative, ever-changing work place with plenty of opportunity for learning and development.Good work-life balance. Good team culture. Colleagues are friendly and generally great to work alongside
Pros
Great discounts and benefits Work from home culture
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Good company and good job!
Field Technician (Current Employee) - Scotland - 8 January 2022
Virgin Media is a great company to work for. They take good care of their staff and supply: company van, tools, training needed for the job, massive discounts on Virgin products in home (MyRates) and many more. The four day a week shift pattern is great too, you work these days between Mon-Sat and is on a three week rotation, so for example:Week 1 - off Mon-TuesWeek 2 - off Wed-ThursWeek3 - off Fri-Sat. This means that on average, you work 2 out of every 3 Saturdays, but it’s worth it for the extra day off during the week (You also don’t work Sundays). It means also, on week 3, you finish up on the Thursday and don’t come back till the following Wednesday, which is really good to have every three weeks.
Pros
Shift Pattern - 4 days a week. 37.5hrs per week. Great benefits on Virgin products, company van/tools, private medical care (Bupa)
Cons
Working alone, work and late quite a lot.
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Everyone is very friendly including managers trainers are also excellent.
Customer Relations Advisor (Former Employee) - Sheffield - 6 January 2022
It’s a great place to work everyone’s is really friendly have a lot of benefits sometimes however could miss out on bonus as this happened to me once.
Pros
Friendly staff
Cons
Long hours
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Okay place to work
Retail Sales Assistant (Former Employee) - East Sussex - 4 January 2022
Easy interview Competitive as we work of individual targets Slow in store days when no one really comes in.Management put a lot of pressure on me as a part timer
Pros
Good bonuses and staff outings
Cons
Competition between staff
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Not fun.
Customer Premises Equipment Collector (Former Employee) - Dundee City - 31 December 2021
CPE collections, we were tasked with collecting equipment from disconnected customers, a mix of non payments and gong elsewhere - Sky, BT etc. Oh my, tough going at times, manager was as much use as a chocolate teapot, we were always made to sell services, even to disconnect non pay customers!!
Pros
Decent benefits, good working hours
Cons
Useless disconnected management team, false promises galore, no chance of advancement. Very much a face fits culture, jobs for the boys.
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Awful
Field Technician (Former Employee) - Nottinghamshire - 30 December 2021
Started as an apprentice after five weeks or so called training not . Left to work on your own. Given tools that were broken and didn't work. When asking for help the mentor who was Spose to train and help was to busy. All they care about is sales and and RAF. Doesn't matter if you do a great job if you have not got two saleable leads and a score of 10 every month your named and shamed .
Pros
Cheap internet
Cons
Long hours constant bombardment about RAF.
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Excellent company to work for. Have thoroughly enjoyed my time at VM.
Commercial Manager (Former Employee) - Reading, Berkshire - 27 December 2021
Great business culture and significant investment made into extra curricular activities such as volunteering, Diversity and inclusion etc. Everyone was very professional and great team culture.
Pros
Business culture, Ceo, flat structure, good work/life balance. Amazing office buildings.
Cons
None.
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Use to be a great place to work.
Customer Service Advisor (Current Employee) - Stockton-on-Tees, Durham - 17 December 2021
You are now just glorified sales agents but not on a sale salary. Targets are impossible you are basically on minimum wage. Avoid it. Everyone is leaving.
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Poor management with no respect for you what so ever.
Virgin engineer (Current Employee) - Kent - 15 December 2021
Stressful place to work. If I could take the time back I would not work for such a poor company. Management are bullies and virgin pay is very bad. My advice is don’t even attempt to work for such a company that only care about profit and not there customers or employees
Pros
Nothing
Cons
Everything
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CSA (Former Employee) - Birmingham, West Midlands - 9 December 2021
Enjoyable job great people company looks after performersPlenty of parkingSupportive managementGood perksStable roleNice office spaceFriendly people
Pros
Free products
Cons
Long hours
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Great social place to work
Customer Resolutions Officer (Former Employee) - Birmingham - 17 November 2021
My time spent at VM was fun, but have no doubt it is fast paced and target driven. Made some real good friends during my time and it was enjoyable. Lots of offsite activities can be organised with your colleagues.
Pros
Staff
Cons
Targets
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Poor management
Customer Retentions Advisor (Former Employee) - Swansea - 16 November 2021
Management refuse to take responsibility and belittle their staff. I was awarded employee of the month and a few weeks later dismissed due to taking a few days off sick
Pros
Discounted packages if you stay long enough
Cons
Poor management
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Productive Sales Environment
Field Sales Representative (Current Employee) - Southwest London, Greater London - 15 November 2021
If you happy to work on targets . Best place to be . Achieving target but you have to put in the extra miles to get there . Commission is very fairly calculated. You have to be lucky to have a good supportive manager. I was the lucky one . My managers was very supportive.
Pros
Vouchers up for grab
Cons
Hard to progress
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Not for everyone
Customer Service Advisor (Former Employee) - Home Based - 15 November 2021
Poor training and lack of support from management. You are expected to take abuse from customers constantly and just get on with it. Micro manage everything you do, when you go to the bathroom and how long you take.
Pros
Good pay
Cons
Micro managed, dragged with time
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Well paid and Fun
Kiosk worker (Former Employee) - Wimbledon - 10 November 2021
Virgin Media has looked after me for e long time and I do feel that they have been one of the best companies that I've ever worked for great pay and job security plus benefits.
Pros
Pay and benefits plus job security
Cons
some things could be done better, like better customer care
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Virgin Values
PA to Assistant General Counsel, Legal Assistant (Former Employee) - Hook, Hampshire - 31 October 2021
Loved my time working at Virgin Media. The company has changed a lot since but still believe the Virgin Values and fun shine through in every role. I made friends for life and still remember my experience gained at Virgin Media the most crucial for thr rest of my career.
Pros
Proud brand
Cons
Sometimes Stressful
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Stressful, to many KPI’s
In my current role for I am a Technician (Current Employee) - North West - 26 October 2021
Being a good technician matters no more as long as you have a good NPS which forced on technicians to cover up the true rating. And you are a salesmen before you are a anything else forced to put rafs in.Also have internal Union which is ran by the company, using this system allows the to force changes up on staff without acknowledgment.
Pros
Life insurance and bumps heath care, good shift pattern
Cons
Poor salary, forced to be salesmen
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