Pros
- Friendly, diverse and inclusive international environment. The company makes a genuine effort in celebrating the different cultures with events. - Solid work-life balance and flexible hours. - Very generous education and personal development budgets that supported individual continuous learning. - Leadership can be approachable and easy to talk to. - Innovation weeks/months were a great initiative that encouraged creativity and recognition beyond the usual workstreams. - Unique product that you get to try out with colleagues if you want to.
Cons
- Speed over quality. Product issues are left unresolved for years due to a culture of favoring technical shortcuts over thoughtful solutions, contributing to an ever-growing technical debt. - Many colleagues have a long tenure (which is a good thing), but many also experience “boreout”. Meaning they stay out of comfort, but are quite demotivated and resistant to change, making stakeholder alignment slow and difficult. - They’ve increased the mandatory office days, and recently reduced the number of days you can work from abroad. That’s been received as a big disappointment, especially for an international company where many people joined for that flexibility. - Promoting inexperienced or unsuitable employees into managerial roles, sometimes despite prior misconduct reports. This directly contributed to burnout in a team, with the issue needing to escalated to the company union to be taken seriously because leadership failed to act. - Favoritism exists, with some managers hiring friends who get preferential treatment/access to top projects- a shared experience that continues to harm morale, development opportunities and fairness. - The environment is quite political despite the small size of the company, which often adds another layer of complexity to getting work done or advocating for change.
