Bullying culture in Redhill especially if your face doesnt fit.
1 team targeted recently despite many other staff behaving the same way, team leader sacked and remainder of the team given final warnings and stripped of their bonus payments this year.
These 3 are now being picked on for every tiny error they make whilst they pursue there own agenda of doing the minimum as a protest at their punishment.
RE:@TtKk10R-ayby
It was an attempt a humor. Sorry it flew by you.
There is a genuine lowering of intellectual standards since the downturn within Crawley
This was covered in an earlier discussion.
Additional evidence confirmed by this dodo supporter.
Long live the Dodo
Redhill scraping by on CGG budget Vs global cloud provider, no contest.
When looking at storage, compute power and io, Redhill is like a dodo next to a cloud provider elephant.
When considering technical expertise, CGG miniscule squad are no match for the huge cloud providers army.
Both are equally limited by global network speeds for the next few years.
'Redhill is obsolete' - well how do you think all the data comes into and out of Redhill - 'with modern network speeds ????' - er , no.
I went on one of the Geo tours there and they get a sh*tload of data coming in and out, and it's not by 'modern network speeds' !!
Now which cloud provider has the expertise and equipment to load up all the data which comes in and out in SEG format ?? - that would be nobody....
D'uh !
Crawley provides a ready supply of bottom quartile candidates to throw into RIF pools whenever the need for headcount reduction comes up.
a few years ago there was talk of extending redhill (building an extra floor)
plans fell through due to lack of space available for car parking and possibly refusal by landlords
Some interesting discussion points have been bought up.
Does anyone have any ideas why CGG hasn't amalgamated all the UK sites into one. Surely they'd save on duplicate roles such as IT, HR, admin, facilities etc. Perhaps one main office and a couple of satellite warehouses for storage is all that is required.
£1m covers for about a year - 10 staff, office and business costs and IT.
It is a drop in the ocean compared to a good business decision.
This supports Schlumberger's long term business model over CGG's short term grab the cash.
Robertson (CGG) were given £1m in 2014 to safeguard jobs in Wales.
"Robertson managing director Dr Chris Burgess welcomed the support to help the firm provide "a modern working environment for its staff".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-27428180
The North Wales office should have closed on day 1 when Robertson was bought.
Similar for Crawley when Veritas was bought.
If you want an example of a successful and profitable model the prime example is Schlumberger.
They purchase competitors, announce closures and integrate the valuable business segments. No way would Crawley exist today in their model. And when the acquisition market has fundamentally changed from marine dominant to land dominant, they get on with it and get out of the high risk low cyclical reward marine acquisition market.
We will know if the new CEO knows how to manage a business.
Minimal change, not reflecting industrial trends, CGG will cyclically return to bankruptcy, particularly at those money borrowing interest rates. (major downturns are about every 6 years, 1996, 2002, 2008 and 2014 were all industry redundancies, bankruptcies and mergers, do you really think CGG has come out of this collapse ready to fight for its future, or stuck in the same old ways. Kiss goodbye to your lifes hard worked career in 2020, 18 months to get out.)
Radical long term planning and reform, CGG may just return to seismic market leader once more. Think bigger, CGG are a market leader in data processing, there are so many types of data they could already be expanding into and similar to the big oil operators, start shifting into new environmental tech areas.
I agree regarding the North Wales office, flogging a dead horse letting that old building. Relocate any profitable departments down south would be my prediction.
The North Wales office must be much higher on the closure list than Crawley and Redhill, surely?!?
poor response when problems happen
I left a few years ago (before the slump) and at the time the Crawley processing was held in high regard by us, clients and competitors. It was generally a well-run, profitable office, with good people.
Since the slump and some changes in management, that has gone downhill. Still lots of good people and good software there, but many of the ex-Veritas managers (who were generally liked) have "moved on". If it keeps profitable, it will stay though.
The board in Montparnasse answer to their new, US overlords now, who just love French unions I'm sure.
Has the Crawley management and HR had any staff changes over the past two years?
Differentiation between what you can do and your competitors.
Processing algorithms - every company can provide the same processing flow. A lot of the theory was invented 2-3 decades ago and have been waiting for compute power to catch up. Old algorithms (modules) take mathematical short cuts to produce a result. Younger companies have better fuller implicated algorithms and are keeping up / even ahead on cutting edge research.
Cost, competitors are financially more astute, leaner (less managers), meaner and most critically cheaper.
Reach, with the closure of the open offices there is no local differentiating service to provide clients a better service than our competitors, even the little ones. Client IHC are operator controlled.
Crawley is the London satelite office for France. CGG does not need 2 EAME head processing hubs. It is to be seen how strong the new CEO is in making the correct long term financially astute business decisions.
And an old favourite of this site, Crawley management and HR lack workforce respect and confidence after how they and their colleagues were treated during the downturn.
They will both be closed down within the next two years
Redhill is obsolete. With modern day network speeds we only need one compute mega centre globally. If we only need to centre may as well place it within a cloud provider who can flex the compute resources as the market available/won work dictates.