New Zealand Post reviews

Stay away from NZ Post Digital, management is toxic and try to overload new staff with all sorts of work from Day 1 without any support or onboarding. Needs for time to ramp up essentially fell on deaf ears, every ‘catch up’ is an opportunity to overload staff with more and more work. When I was 1 month in in I was literally working till 1AM most nights due to the incompetence and lack of support from Digital Leadership, rather they just push to get away with as much overloading teams as they can. They say they care about their people and give BA’s and PO’s advice to not overcommit, but then find every opportunity to overload the team with non-prioritised work, then blame the team on not getting planned work done. Resourcing is a major issue - 1 developer struggling with 10-15 end-to-end projects in a single quarter, and there’s apparently ‘no budget to hire new people’, resulting in lots of third-party offshore contractors for separate projects which they then put additional burden on the team to manage. The worst place you can ever be if you want to grow in the BA/Product space.

No investment, no planning linked to investment, no strategy linked to planning and investment. No strategy execution, despite the best efforts of some great architects. Most of them berated and ground down. The Data and Technology (The IT Department) Management are toxic, lack vision, direction and focus solely on operational issues, There is no investment in modern technology, despite repeated roadmaps and strategies developed by the architecture team . Frankly the Data and Technology leadership team wouldn’t know how to read roadmap or strategy, as they are that useless.