Pros: Good environment to work for everyone.

Cons: Nothing bad here at work.

Pros: - Pays well - Free lunch - Barista in the office - Central location

Cons: - Legacy spaghetti code, no tech stack - No product vision - Manager involves in every meeting, makes every decision without asking the team - Actually, there is no team at all - Individual work is dominant rather than teamwork - Remote work is discouraged - Working from abroad depends on manager approval and has no standard approach - You have to fight for the details of your work, for example, to understand what they are exactly asking you to do. - The manager is proud of being unstructured and chaotic (probably he confuses having no structure with agile) - No openness and direct feedback; people talk behind each other

Pros: Good pay, lots of room to grow, cool tech, very welcoming and international colleagues. Awesome offices as well.

Cons: The culture at Adyen was great pre-COVID and adapted well during the pandemic, but over the past year and a half, there have been noticeable changes. Ever since COVID ended, there has been a gradual shift towards micromanagement and excessive control. More than half of the company's workforce was hired during the pandemic, a period when the company was thriving. During that time, leadership delivered numerous speeches praising everyone for their dedication in overcoming challenges, emphasizing the importance of flexibility, and promoting trust in one another to get the job done, regardless of where we were working. Yet, as soon as COVID disappeared, this sentiment vanished. Mandatory in-office days and rigid bureaucratic rules were implemented without consideration for individual circumstances. The experience at Adyen transformed from feeling like you were part of a cool community building something amazing to feeling like you were a cog in a machine that didn't care about you at all. "You've got this" has turned into "fall in line". Both the people and tech are unique at this company, and it's a shame to see the culture on a forced downward spiral. The top-level management's attitude is my way or the highway, and I suspect a lot of us will choose the highway.