Pros
Everything they do is commendable when it comes to upholding values and promoting employee engagement. The pay is excellent, the benefits are outstanding, and the offsites are truly exceptional. The company has a knack for recruiting exceptional employees and bringing out their best. In fact, it's the best company I have ever worked for. However...
Cons
Codility is a company that initially woos you with its charms, only to shatter your expectations. They whisk you away to exotic locations for expensive offsite events, but then abruptly lay you off citing losses from Q1. It's hardly surprising that they incurred losses, considering that they flew in circa 200 people from all over the world to Club Med in Punta Cana. Read that again. The selection criteria for laying off employees in all three rounds between August 22 and March 23 (!) is highly opaque, resulting in the unfortunate dismissal of many loyal employees, aka "the doers". Codility lacks a clear product strategy and the kind of leadership that could help it rise above competition, despite investing in top-level executives ("the thinkers") rather than those who actually do the work. There is too much focus on catching up with competitors. Too much anxiety when it comes to "what others are doing". Industry leaders don't follow the crowd. The said thinkers tend to come from NA, as if the only way forward for this company is to be led by the US folks. It's massively discriminating when you look at how many departments got rid of Europeans. Just take a look at the Marketing team - a great example of that. It used to be international. Not anymore. The People team must be a big cost as they only lay off junior staff. The year 2022 was a period of massive decline for Codility, as the company came to terms with the reality that it lacked the ability to properly allocate its resources and distinguish between spending and investing. It was a case of "too much, too soon."
