Switchee

Smart energy management platform
Last updated:
January 23, 2026
Company details
HQ
HEADCOUNT
100-499
ORG TYPE
Startup
SECTOR
Energy & Climate
About the company
Switchee builds connected heating controls and in-home sensors, plus a portal that helps social housing providers spot issues like underheating, fuel poverty risk, and damp and mould earlier. Switchee’s products are used to turn live property data into alerts and workflows for housing teams, alongside resident communications. The company is B Corp certified and positions the work around improving living standards and sustainability in social housing. Public materials also point to venture backing and growth tied to wider housing quality and decarbonisation priorities.
Locations and presence
Switchee lists London as a core base and describes a remote-first team across the UK with periodic in-person gatherings. Public listings also point to a Netherlands presence alongside the UK.
Palpable Score
84.4
/ 100
Switchee publishes detailed hiring, onboarding, and progression information, which makes early-career expectations easier to judge than at most scale-ups. The strongest signals are transparent recruiting timelines, visible salary bands with bonus and equity, and a career framework that is referenced directly in job ads. The main limiter is that publicly accessible outcome data for early-career retention and promotion is still mostly headline-level.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

16.5
/ 20
  • The company has advertised genuinely junior routes like Customer Operations Representative (£24k–£26k), Junior Project Coordinator (£26k–£30k), and Finance Assistant roles that are framed as development opportunities.
  • Switchee has also used “IC1” language in roles like Product Marketing Executive, explicitly positioning the level as suitable for one of your first specialist roles.
  • The company references an Operations Associate apprenticeship scheme in its hiring materials, but current availability of open early-career roles is inconsistent across public job pages, which caps the score.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

18.5
/ 20
  • The company publishes a day-by-day recruitment journey plus hard stats like “time to reject: 6 days,” which sets a clear expectation that applicants will hear back either way.
  • Switchee describes structured stages (screen, competency interview, role-relevant task, culture interview) and calls out that tasks are scenario-based and role-specific, with a named People contact available for questions.
  • The company tracks and shares candidate experience scoring (including a stated 2024 average), but public materials do not consistently show what applicants can expect for feedback depth after tasks and late-stage interviews.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

17.8
/ 20
  • The company lays out onboarding in a timeline format, including home set-up before day one and a manager-prepared 30/60/90 plan with objectives, resources, and expected outcomes.
  • Switchee backs this up with onboarding survey results (quality, belonging, and “reality check” scores) rather than vague claims about “great onboarding.”
  • The company reinforces ongoing learning through an L&D budget, a book-request “library,” and quarterly performance and progression conversations tied to a published Career Development Framework.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

16.8
/ 20
  • The company frequently publishes salary ranges on roles (including junior ones) and explains how bands are built via a documented benchmarking approach and levelling system.
  • Switchee adds stability signals early-career candidates care about, like full-time roles, clear bonus ranges on many adverts, and a consistent share options figure appearing across multiple job families.
  • The company states a market-median pay stance and is a Real Living Wage employer, but the public detail on benefits value, pension specifics, and pay progression within bands is uneven across sources.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

14.8
/ 20
  • The company ties progression to a seven-level Career Development Framework and states two annual promotion windows (May and November), with a cited ~20% annual progression figure in public materials.
  • Switchee publishes onboarding outcome metrics (including belonging and onboarding quality satisfaction), which is an early signal that new starters are integrating rather than being left to sink or swim.
  • The company has a modest volume of anonymous employee reviews with mixed-but-leaning-positive signals (including work-life balance and compensation sub-scores), but publicly accessible early-career retention, tenure-by-level, and junior promotion breakdowns are still limited.

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