Great engineering culture, overshadowed by growing flaws
Pros
- Only 2 days required in office, managers happy to be flexible beyond this as needed - Great dev team: there are some truly excellent developers here who are willing to provide help and coaching if you ask - Lots of flexibility to work on what you want within the scope of your product - Variety of languages used - Generally good opportunities for learning - Encourages a very independent workflow - No push to embrace LLM-centric development - Get-it-done culture with a strong connection between Dev and DevOps
Cons
- Very uncompetitive compensation. No bonuses below L5. Minimum pension contribution. No stock options - PE acquisition has rapidly led to many nice-to-have/day-to-day benefits being rolled back with less social budget etc. Yet there is somehow a huge budget for major internal sales and marketing events. - Recent "improvements" to career growth seem entirely superficial - management seem unwilling to provide appropriate role and pay improvements. - Complete lack of transparency from a high level: while there has been an uptick in communications, again seems mostly superficial as a lot of the actually useful information (pay bands/structure) are still hidden - Dev team spread far too thin. Made worse as there seems to be a constant drain of good, well-respected developers. - Countless internal tech issues with regular VPN/connectivity/internal service issues with developers just expected to work around the whole time. Constant deprecation of well-tested and beloved internal solutions in favour of shoddy and unfit-for-purpose setup of industry standard tooling - Independent workflow can cause a complete lack of direction, or cause similar features to be developed separately with wasted effort
