Pros
- There is indeed some room to explore new ideas and concepts, more than in other companies. - They allow you to invest a lot of time on POC, that eventually most of the times are taken seriously and turned into actual features. - The organisation's chaos is so intense that one eventually learns how to deal with it in an healthy way, this is something that you will carry with you on your next experience - There is free lunch, although the quality of food is not the most amazing
Cons
- Chaotic structure sold internally as flat hierarchy. Reality is that it's not flat, and not a hierarchy. It's all very messy. - The amount of competition and stress is unbearable. This company seems to attract only people who are workaholics and must prove themselves worthy to the management and superior to colleagues all the time. If you're not this kind of person stay away. - Incompetent management, they use a lot of buzzwords and corporate canned slogans without worrying too much about the actual reality nor what they actually mean. - Employees are treated as nothing more but parts of the machine. There is no humanity in this company, taking more that 2 days off for sickness is seen as damaging the company and you will feel the judgement of others around you. - People constantly leave for the same reason, they see less skilled colleagues being promoted. - The free lunch is of very bad quality, many time I had to be careful and avoid expired products. - The main Amsterdam office is in a glass building, during the summer the whole place turns into an oven (~30 degrees) and there is no air conditioning, because it's broken and "cannot be repaired". - Interviewing people results sometimes in rejected candidates being hired anyway. The recruitment process is very shady.