Checkout.com reviews

Terrible and toxic working culture. It did not feel stable and comfortable to work at this company. The leaders are rude and abrasive. If you ever voice your opinion, you will be terminated, without reasonable explanation. They expect long working hours with little reward. Onboarding was the only good experience and then they request that you write a review on Glassdoor within 3 days of working at the company, which does not reflect the real views of employees. Most employees have only been at Checkout for a very short amount of time as there is no longevity in this business.

The rest of my observations: YMMV as the team silos are deep. This is a Westrum category 1 organisation. The engineers are mostly good people, although the ones with deep in-house technical knowledge are isolated from industry best practices, don't know what they are missing and have no incentive to learn. But autonomy is very low. Information is hoarded. Technical practices are not uniform across the board, they are patchy and there's no desire to level up. Checkout is not a company that encourages speaking openly, or saying that things could be done better. Do not expect Psychological safety. Do not expect change. The "Devops team" has "no intent" to do continuous delivery practices - they are deeply invested in outdated tools, manual testing and teams supposedly rolling their own automation, which of course these teams never have time and skills to. It's a step back in time. Management can be toxic. Some Line managers are enlightened, but some just expect micromanagement and Jira-closing feature factory behaviour, i.e. work the machine harder not smarter. It's not supportive: Some managers play politics, or bully with false stories and trivial stuff, like it's middle-school. This is left unaddressed, i.e. quietly condoned.