Pros
Good pay overall, and a genuinely strong engineering team who really cared about the work they were doing. There were a lot of talented, thoughtful people who wanted to build things properly. Pension is 3% (legal minimum) 25 days holiday (can’t buy or sell days) Working hours 9–6, 3 compulsory days in the office
Cons
They hired a large number of engineers and then, less than a year later, made around 80% of those new joiners redundant There wasn’t clear product direction, especially after most of the product team either left or were made redundant. Projects felt unstable with tight deadlines, constant priority switching, little requirements and fast-paced churn. A lot of work ended up being scrapped because products weren’t properly thought through or validated with customers. It often felt like we were building quickly without asking whether customers actually wanted the feature. There also needs to be more focus on polishing and improving the existing product, rather than constantly chasing new ideas that don’t make it to completion CTO’s approach felt chaotic, trying to act as product lead and developer simultaneously. There was a strong push towards AI-generated code over quality and maintainability