Pros
Salaries are good for the area.
Cons
No training offered in a year. No mention of future training or training budget. Poor work-life balance, with bad project management resulting in the foreseeable overrun of every single project I've seen - with the consequent non-negotiable demand that you will put in additional hours - and those hours have included most project staff staying until 1am and coming back into work at 9am. Illegally, I believe. Very frequent callouts for devs on on-call rota. Creaking software stack with much appallingly written code still maintained and sticking-plastered over. Highly idiosyncratic software version control, 'Accurev', widely loathed by all the developers and which causes significant development & scheduling problems. No proper attempt made to estimate development effort and no feedback of estimates into future estimates. Bulk of development team appear to be contractors and all developers then treated like contractors - their views & input not solicited, and little involvement in project process. Balkanisation of departments so they work together poorly. For example, project specification documents (always badly written, no version control used on them) are not directly accessible to developers who have to get at them via Citrix client. A very waterfall-ish process that nevertheless still has significant changes being made to specifications when projects are in Test. Poor management communications; vaguely threatening occasional ad-hoc direct meetings and no team or department meetings, at all, in a year. Culture of blame (recent incident, first management question was, 'whose fault was that'). Best management advice apparently quotes from a motivational book written by a footballer. Threatening and badly-written comms from HR and related business functions - whole staff round-robins are written badly and keep a hint of threat and menace. Latest to all staff included the words, 'you have been warned' There is a kowtowing deference to senior management, with middle managers repeating with excitement tales of passing someone senior in a corridor. Work environment appalling, especially for those working in the portacabins; noise levels very high, physically cramped so you will often find yourself backing your chair into that of the person sitting behind you; floor and monitors bounce up and down as people walk past. Nearest toilets, too, are in portacabins. Your PC will be very locked-down. You won't be able to install the little tools you use and like. My disk space has been in the warning red since I started. Your email will be deleted after 12 weeks. You won't be able to access your personal mail account from your work PC and your phone won't receive a signal in the portacabins. You will not have a phone on your desk. Your lunch hour is in fact a lunch half-hour and you will rarely be able to take the whole half hour; you will be expected to respond to questions and demands during it. You will be sneered at if you point out it's your lunch. Very laddish culture. Very, very few women working in software development; appreciate this is an industry fact but stats seems much worse at Bet365.