A rudderless place with pockets of soulessness
Pros
- Some good, skilled people. - Good if you're looking for little accountability and clocking off work early. - Work on products with a lot of users. - Cloudfoundry deployment infrastructure well geared toward microservices and freedom for teams to work in different ways. - Some opportunities for international travel. - London office has a lively vibe if you get to visit. - Hackdays were fun for many (but my team were nudged not to take part, to just work as normal). - Foosball table.
Cons
- Typical corporate lack of direction and momentum. Developers were hired without the decisions made as to what they would do. There was a long period of thumb twiddling. - Sterile corporate offices without decor or soul. - Few structures to ensure accountability. Particularly a problem with the hiring process where entrusting people to be the initial, unilateral decider on hiring others to do the same job risks conflict of interest. - There's a strong vibe of 'I'm just here for the money' even among the new hires who one might have hoped would be fired up to make an impact. - Better coffee would be much appreciated.
