Checkout.com Software Developer reviews

2.9

43% would recommend to a friend

(64 total reviews)
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Guillaume Pousaz

38% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Checkout.com with 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 64 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have an average working experience there. Checkout.com is rated 22% below average by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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64 reviews
1.0
Dec 13, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- In the past, a "fun" culture. - Still lots of great people.

Cons

Not a coincidence most of this has coincided with the arrival of the CHRO. The culture has been decimated from the top down, replaced with an "us vs them" mentality between the lower rungs and senior leadership and performative management theatre. - Faux transparency. Lots of candid, "open" communication from the leaders, while laying off swathes of people under the guise of performance reviews. - The performance review process has been turned into a farce, where managers have no power to accurately appraise their reports. Genuine high performers getting passed over because of the need to fit a normal distribution curve within small teams (a basic understanding of statistics would help). - Layers of "politicians" have been installed as a buffer under the leadership, whose only role is to facilitate constant alignment meetings where feedback vanishes into the ether. - Salaries have stagnated. Once paid quite well, now relying the slower market to keep unhappy employees overworked and underpaid. - Employee satisfaction has tanked. There's waaay more than I'm going to put down here because I'm just a bit tired of it all. Honestly, the company wasn't perfect before (real diversity problems, bro culture, poor tech) and some things are still ok (people trapped in the job because of the economic climate, tech is "ok"), but it's real toxic sh*t show now.

5.0
Oct 14, 2022

very good

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

very good company to work in

Cons

I think I just have pros

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Checkout.com Response
3y
Hi there, Thanks for leaving us this review, we’re so happy to read that you’re having such a positive experience in our tech team. Thanks for everything you do at CKO. Best, The People Team
1.0
Oct 3, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Checkout threw money at tech which means we worked with great tooling as there seemed to be no upper limit on spending - Some extremely smart people working in the company

Cons

- I can honestly say that checkout massively impacted my mental health in a negative way. There was a constant sense of frustration and tension across every team I spoke too. - Managers didn't want to be managers in many cases and very much so on my team. This meant that trying to progress was impossible and there was no feedback after the last review I had before I left even. - The culture champs network was ineffectual and actually shut down on a global scale with "small targeted" teams of people at a local level but literally nothing ever came of any meeting we ever had. - There was a glass ceiling which was very apparent. Some of the more senior engineers in management very obviously distainful of teams they didn't see as "useful". - Pretty terrible compensation on the whole. Fairly low base which is compounded by salary brackets moving 3 times in the space of 1.5 years. - Terrible diversity - 80% of my working days were filled with stress and general team unhappiness. I actively dreaded going to work on Monday mornings and I know I'm not the only one who felt like this given the massive amount of people leaving at the same time as me.

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Checkout.com Response
3y
Hi there, We’re sorry to hear that your experience whilst you were with us wasn’t more positive. Fostering a company culture where colleagues can prioritise their mental health, and feel supported, is something we take very seriously. It’s why we’ve established a mental health champions network, have a comprehensive wellness programme and offer an employee assistance service for anyone to access when they feel they need it. We're sorry this wasn't your experience. Thank you for the detail you’ve gone into here. We’ll be sharing your feedback to help us continue to improve. We wish you all the very best with your next move.
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