Pros
Very well equipped kitchen with food provided daily (pre-covid), usually not too stressful, good work-life balance. The people are generally nice and professionals in their field. Competitive starting salaries for the area.
Cons
Product decisions controlled by the main PM, while engineers have very little influence. Work is mostly not very challenging, repetitive, and the impact is often questionable (decisions are not data driven, but feelings-driven, features being re-implemented in regular time intervals with no regard to previous outcomes, etc.). In time, most talented engineers get bored and start looking elsewhere. Management decisions don’t seem to be aligned with presented long-term goals and there doesn’t seem to be a coherent product strategy. Management solves problems reactively instead of trying to avoid them. A big red flag are the new rules for salary increases, which in short means no salary rise until the third year of employment (not even taking inflation into account). This seems to have caused quite a high turn-over lately too. Remote unfriendly (limited to 10 days a year working from abroad and working from home discouraged), despite several employees being from abroad originally and on visas in the UK.
