Great learning experience while TL was a private company - Avis employé Graduate Scheme Tube Lines

Making a real difference to the city; Mostly Good people; Canary Wharf office has great views and culture fairly relaxed.

The internal politics - largely due to the management structure; senior managers were mostly "secondees" from the "shareholders" with loyalty to their actual employers which often left questions of conflict with the interests of both the business and TFL; not a massive problem but it did affect some of the decisions. Socially, there was an unfortunate "them and us" culture caused by an over-reliance on graduate schemes/acceleration; a bit cliquey with regular cases where family members ended up getting each other jobs. The same surnames cropped up a lot in some departments which could be disconcerting if you were not part of these cliques.

Tube Lines offers challenging work and performance recognised (but seems to be only by the Bechtel secondees). There are plenty of opportunities to grow and develop but you have to push and push.

Poor development opportunities. For a young ambitious person, age may be a hinderance. The hours are long but for me it was self imposed as I wanted to develop faster.