Pros
- some people will thrive in this environment, some will feel disappointed - no probation - 35 working hours - good work/life balance - no crazy pressure - decent pay - few months ago it would be outstanding pay, but now more and more companies are offering similar renumeration and Mettle didn't follow the trend - decent benefits - smart people around to work with (not talking about most of management) - opportunity to learn new things - hackathons when they happened, didn't hear about any plans to organise another one for a while - fully remote if you want to (please keep it) - good tech stack
Cons
- 3 months notice if you decide to leave and most likely you'll have to stay for whole period - you can only work from UK, Natwest is apparently considering to loosen this restriction, but we didn't hear about any updates in that direction for very long time - former female CEO has left, temporary fill became permanent even though originally they've been looking for another replacement, is he the best candidate for role? Only time will tell - pay raises this year were really far off inflation even if you got good review - giving more responsibilities to certain team members and no reward to reflect it, at least it helps CVs once you decide to look for another job - on-calls - it's something that you count on having to do. Part of the engineering is doing only in hours, some have to do out of hours too. - management is hopeless, very reactionary, always promising to do better next time, but yet they don't learn their lesson - career progression is questionable - finally competency matrix is being applied after long time of promising it's rollout and some people got promoted. How many other people will get the same opportunity - we shall see. There seems to be limited number of available spots on higher levels and considering that quite a bit of engineering is senior heavy - I don't think that there is much room for everyone to make the next step. - feels like we're now getting yearly re-orgs and not exactly well executed - be prepared for possible line managers changing every few months - there seems to be burst of interest in certain causes, like climate change, diversity, etc. but it always feel like it fades away over time. - as much as there are smart people, there are also people that I don't understand how they can keep their jobs - remnants of work done by agency in the early days - it still haunts everyone whenever someone has to touch the legacy code as it's not much fun to deal with poor code and decisions