Checkout.com reviews

The company does give a good impression during the recruitment process but that fell apart shortly after I started. There was a huge amount of pressure and stress created by middle management who seemed to be focused on looking good to the higher ups with no regard at all for quality work or the well-being of their engineers. I didn't quite realise how badly working checkout was affecting me until I resigned. The office politics that came from above was savage and I saw fellow engineers and other teams being thrown under the bus by engineering management. They loaded me up with unrealistic deadlines to set me up for personal failure and got aggressive when I tried to push back yet preached "feel free to push back on deadlines" in team wide calls. It was clear that the various layers of management above the team were not honest to each other. A complete disaster and a mental health nightmare. My team regularly raised feelings of burnout and concerns about quality of work due to the pressure and volume of work being expected yet our managers did nothing to help this as that pressure was coming from them. Another thing is a lack of any investment in the engineers. We asked for one afternoon each month to up skill in something and got told no. At no stage did my manager/s ever discuss career growth or goals. The deadlines set were so tight there was no room for onboarding or investigations. Overall the company does not treat it's people well at all. This is a very toxic environment from the top down right through the middle management layers.

Since the mass redundancies, there has been merely lip service paid to the fact that, across departments, there are no women or minorities in upper management (apart from one or two who are pointed to whenever someone brings this up). It is a boys club who literally keep hiring their friends (you cant make this stuff up). The issue of minorities being totally discounted and patronised at work is ignored as they ‘don’t have any data’.  Massive bonuses given to those at the top and anyone at the bottom told there’s no money for even an inflationary raise. If the job market wasn’t downturned, they would battle to keep anyone. Culture of bullying and blame. Managers will throw you under the bus to save themselves. Although you work with smart people, there is a culture that doesn’t allow for any dissenting voices. Suck up or ship out. There was time when this was a great place to work, but that time is not now. You will be gaslit about how terrible you are at your job so they don’t have to promote you. You will leave feeling worn down and depressed.  All I can say is, take the salary while you can in the current job market but remember it’s not you, it’s them!!!! PS. employees are pressured into leaving positive reviews so don't believe them