Full Stack Development at an AI/Finance start-up - Full Stack Developer Freyda Employee Review

- Management is very good. They are understanding and can take feedback. - Company is still in early stages so there is a lot of room for self-improvement and contributing to decisions. - People are friendly, there is no "blaming-culture", if something fails, we look at what went wrong and what we can learn from it rather than pointing fingers. - Actually good usage of agile methodology where the team contributes to choosing what can be achieved in a sprint. - Relies on trust, no performance monitoring shenanigans. - Relatively flexible hours (9-5, but no hard requirement to be always available between those times). - Remote working (meetups once every week-ish in Science Park if you are based in Exeter, but they are not compulsory) - Honestly a cool project with a lot to learn from.

- Being a startup means that your work will be needed so you might feel some pressure to finish it (no unrealistic deadlines though). - Remote working means the team is spread throughout the country, however the company still tries to get everyone together from time to time. - You get a small dell laptop, which is good if you want to work from a coffee shop for example, however you might need to already have a work setup to feel like you can be as productive as possible. - Not a lot of benefits apart from legal holiday requirement.

The technical team is extremely accomplished and provides the best training for software engineering best practices. Project management is flexible enough to allow innovation but rigorous enough to guarantee consistent and audit-able output. Anyone is welcome to reach out to anyone regardless of the individual's specialty. Cross-pollination is a major benefit. Responsive leadership that pays great attention to employee's feedback.

Fewer days of annual leave than the average company. Short notice period but the amount of work associated with longer notice period is expected. As opposed to a gradually reduced workload typical for staff on notice period, the workload increases instead. Company equipment is shipped to door but the employee is held responsible for returning it her/himself. Employee with no work authorization is required to fully cover her/his own cost of obtaining such work authorization. Machiavellian attitude of the leadership that U-turns on employee who decides to move on to a different opportunity.