Checkout.com Senior Software Developer reviews

Chaotic at times, long hours, stressful, mismanaged. The direction Checkout is taking is sinister. They started up as a fun start-up but now they're a soulless corporation that invests a lot in people governance and policing and they are dismantling anything that used to be worth staying for. They have published a new NDA that no one wants to touch, so they employ dishonest tactics to twist people's arms to sign it. New starters will no doubt won't have a choice, but I ask new starters to carefully read it and decide if it's worth starting a job there with that eternal binding agreement over their heads. They ask new starters who have been in the company for less than one week to come here and place 5 star reviews, before they've even finished their first week inductions. I wouldn't trust any review in here based on how I see them push for people to come and write something positive. They also started enforcing very strict rules about work, banning remote work and becoming more ruthless about it. They are also unable to make any exceptions no matter how sensible your circumstances. The HR department is run by bots and I can confidently call them that because they failed the Turing test. They are unable to understand the content of your email and send out automated replies, often irrelevant legal text. I hope no one will ever need their mercy for anything, because they won't find it. Those bots are incapable of any sympathy or emotion. They also employ people to monitor emails and slack conversations. Hard work is not rewarded. I regret working long hours, weekend and nights. I regret winning a hackathon which meant 3 days and 3 nights of hard voluntary work. The award was a ten pound ebook voucher from amazon and we never got to see the award because they suddenly fired the deliver manager who was supposed to send it. Speaking of that, they often change their minds and fire lots of people in one go. While I was there they fired all of the delivery managers and a lot of QAs with very short notice. I can sense they're in panic, as they grew too fast and are struggling to adjust.

- Fast-paced, meaning it's sometimes a chaotic and an unpredictable journey. However, that seems inevitable in a progressive and rapidly expanding scale-up. Also, it's worth noting that this has been improving steadily and going in the right direction.