- people team do not help or care even though they spend an hour explaining to newcomers that they help for everything
- you have to chase HR a long time in order to get any answer/legal document
- too few toilets, they are always full and seldom clean
- code quality is disastrous in Ocean (legacy product) and mediocre in OSP (new product)
- impossible to work remotely so everyone lies about having doctor appointments or waiting for deliveries to "justify" working from home
- no career growth if you are shy as working outside your team is the only thing that is valued to get promoted
- SE4 (highest grade for Software Engineer) is impossible to attain unless you work in the platform team
- Social event only happens once every two months and you would be lucky to get a slice of pizza and a beer as there is not enough for everyone
- No time is given to improve code or processes
- low salary compared to London
- if you are unlucky enough to end up in Ocean (legacy product) your career will take a massive hit as technologies and processes are outdated and code quality is abysmal. Management too is outdated in Ocean.
- graduate recruits are lured in with promises of working on the new platform with microservices but are then told that there is no room and sent to Ocean
- free instant coffee is not good
- high turnover