Reply reviews

- Very profit/money oriented and this causes a lot of stress as well as bad feeling for both customers and over worked colleagues as the profit margin much higher than the industry standard - Management do not have much in the way of technical knowledge to judge complexity and have a lot of pressure to sell people into dangerous lucrative projects with very high expectations and this often goes very wrong as the experience not yet there with most of the young team - Work life balance poor with too many unofficial hours that get spent scrambling to deliver and lots of internal activities which you need to attend to get ahead or the management will quickly take a dislike to you

Reply itself is just a holding company which centrally handles administrative work for its dozens of Reply subsidiaries (e.g. Finance and HR). Most of the employees are in fact working for one of the subsidiaries. Communication between the subsidiaries is practically not existent, even though they advertise the opposite. In fact, subsidiaries are actively working against each other to get a project, or even try to “steal” a project from another subsidiary. If you are not just sitting on the bench right from the start (which is a realistic option), the projects can hardly be described as some kind of meaningful consulting or engineering project. To a large extent, Reply’s strategy is to offer dumping prices, basically forcing companies to choose Reply over other firms just for financial reasons. So, consequently, most of the projects are just cheap outsourcing projects - a.k.a body leasing projects - requiring one to work on mundane tasks for which the customer did not want to burn their own in-house employees. Most of the managers are lacking experience and skills for a management role. Reason being, most of the managers joined Reply right after university and then just climbed the ladder, which mostly means one just has to stay with the company for a pre-defined number of years. Almost none of the managers gained relevant practical experience outside of Reply.