Scale up going corporate - Software Engineer Checkout.com Employee Review

3.0
Jul 2, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Decent compensation. Pays above average. - Interesting tech stack and investment in technology. Plenty of opportunity to learn and use the latest and greatest. - Challenging domain. Plenty of interesting problems to solve.

Cons

- Getting very corporate lately and feels sluggish. Plenty of red tape. - Questionable decisions regarding people management recently. No transparency and honest communication in terms of c level decisions. - No commitment to agile development anymore. Micro waterfalls is now the model. - Micro-managing. Management will randomly pick things to solutionise on.

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Checkout.com Response
4y
Hey,

 Thanks for taking the time to write us an honest review. 

We love to see that your were feeling challenged in your work by the cutting-edge technologies we use and the problems we’re solving.
 That being said, we also want to discuss the points you raised where we can improve. 

As the company scales, it’s a major priority for us to stay lean and not create unnecessary red tape. We believe the best way to do this is by communicating clearly the company goals and curating a culture of autonomy and inclusion.

 We’re also investing heavily in manager training to ensure our people get the trust and freedom they need to excel at their job. 

 It’s clear from your review that this was not the case for you and we’re truly sorry about that. In order for us to improve on this, we want to invite you to share any additional information with us at people.culture@checkout.com, so we can look into what went wrong.

 Thanks again, 

The People Team

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