A heady mix of chaos, freedom and opportunity - not for the faint hearted - Senior Data Engineer Busuu Employee Review

1. Enthusiastic and talented colleagues. The socially good nature of the product and startup atmosphere attracts a highly motivated cadre of employees - I've learnt a lot from some of my colleagues. People will genuinely try their best to help you out if you need it 2. Minimal bureaucracy and high autonomy. I had a lot of freedom in terms of what approach I could take to solve a problem as my direct management took a relatively hands off approach. Unlike the large corporates that many of my friends work out, Busuu's organisational structure has not yet fossilised into an anti-pattern 3. Strong growth outlook. While not achieving the stellar growth of Duolingo (a very high bar), Busuu has sustained a healthy level of growth for the last half-decade. This leads to a lot of interesting challenges as you can be sure that you'll be dealing with bigger data next year than this year. 4. A strong, socially good product. Looking for a tech job in London that doesn't relate to finance can feel like a challenge sometimes. However, Busuu has a product that does actually improve peoples lives in some way. With the acquisition of Verbling (an online language tuition platform) you can arguably go from having no understanding of a language to a conversational level purely using Busuu products 5. Data driven culture. Every company claims to have this but often it's just spin and the company is actually driven by the ideological whims of senior management. Busuu is the closest to actually being data driven that I've seen - most changes to the app are AB tested and performance metrics are scrutinised