Adyen

Benefits are good, especially the health insurance, if you can find the time to use it.

There was a benefit of travel to the headquarters in Amsterdam, which was a very good professional growth opportunity, but it is being limited due to cost cuts.

It was a company with a differentiated and solid culture, which made a difference in the environment and in decision-making. However, growth at any cost diluted it, transforming the employee into just another replaceable and disposable cog in the corporate machine, giving way to the traditional culture based on backstabbing, scapegoating, and punishment.

The promotion of professionals with technical profiles, lacking people management skills, to managerial positions led to micromanagement of their subordinates and the annulment of their professional independence, thus fostering favoritism. If a manager dislikes you for any reason, prepare yourself for the traditional corporate-hierarchical bullying.

Project prioritization has always been disorganized and is worsening with growth, as Project and Product Managers merely exert pressure on developers through demands for yesterday or the day before. Managers do not interfere or take responsibility, turning developers into their scapegoats. When delivery occurs within the deadline, the applause is for Product and the Managers, completely ignoring your effort and delivery.

It will be repeated countless times by someone with a forced smile that "the bar here is high," a euphemism for saying "your performance will be judged harshly." This phrase will be used as justification to keep your evaluation borderline with the minimum acceptable, a process conducted arbitrarily and non-transparently, at your leader's whim, to pressure you to increase your productivity indefinitely.

The organization is directed towards ceasing to have technology as an end and adopting it merely as a means, grounding itself in political-hierarchical relationships in opposition to meritocracy and professional competence, penalizing those who deviate from the sycophant profile. It becomes a classic financial institution aiming to maximize profits through an inefficient and outdated management format, at the expense of employees' mental health and professional satisfaction, but pleasing its shareholders.

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