- Low salaries;
- High employees turnover:
I saw very unhappy people working there. This is the first place I have seen people wanting to leave the company before completing three months. And there are a lot o people that are just waiting the best opportunity to leave and a lot that already left the company.
- People don't want to grow their career there:
There are a lot of people who don't want to get a leadership position because they don't want to follow a toxic leadership way. And those who accept the challenge will begin to get sad because they will need to do a lot of things that they disagree, just to follow this pattern.
- Micro management:
Good luck in your first team. In some teams, you will need the approval of the "owner(s)" of the code to do a simple if;
- Bad code review:
The "owner(s)" of the code will make you refactor the name of a variable/method at least 3 times, with a more "meaningful name";
- Not clear definition of done:
The Jira Cards only have a Title;
- Not agile:
There are teams that think that having an agile coach will not help the team in anything;
- Not clear evaluation:
The way they evaluate your work is not objective. Sometimes they will use a behavior as a bad thing, while other times they will say that the same behavior is required for your position. Also, they will check your Git for measure your performance but without informing you before, so no matter if you talked about something, if it is not reflected on your Git, is like you didn't do it at all.
- Ignore your knowledge
Your previous knowledge is nothing at Farfetch. You will need to be shaped based on the Team's way. Don't try to think too much, because they have already thought in all cases;
- Doing the same thing trying to solve the same problem, expecting to have a different result:
You will usually see a red pipelines during all sprint, and the solution will be just "fixing" the pipeline.
- They use feedback against you:
If you give a feedback, be prepared that can be used against you.
- Don't try to change the team:
There are a lot of people who failed in the process to change the team. Some of those with "hidden" reasons.
- They use threat against you:
If you make a suggestion to improve a team's process, you will be threaded with this suggestion, and you will get the blame if something goes wrong with your suggestion. Your suggestion will be a law from then, and you must be the only person responsible to make the new suggestion work.
- Management will not say that they are wrong:
Everything was your fault. Managers think that they are perfect.
- No transparency on employees contracts:
There are kind of contracts in Portugal. Also, there are hidden contracts that you will need to sign on your first day;
- No transparency with salaries:
There are difference between salaries, based on the same position and responsibilities. Besides, if you think the bonus as a part of your salary, think it twice. There are some hidden rules to give you a bonus;
- No transparency with benefits:
The stocks rules aren't clear. Some people with the same salary will get the less stocks than the others;
- Bad understanding of Farfetch's values (Todos Juntos):
Some managers think "Todos Juntos" as the team only. They will say that they are cleaning live and the other teams only do mistakes.
- Bad understanding of Farfetch's values (Be Human):
Some managers think "Be Human" is to create a "family" at Farfetch, on which everybody do every single thing together. If you don't want something like this, you are wrong.
- Dismissals in Christmas/End Year period;
