Adyen

• Work-life balance is good.
• Flexible working from home.
• Close to the central station.
• Okay-ish salary.
• Agree with your manager all the time, make the platform unstable, and you get promoted.
• Emails and messages full of emojis.

• Ancient, unstable, outdated, and slow monorepo.
• Not Invented Here Syndrome to the extreme.
• All technologies will have the "adyen" sour flavor, so if you know something, your knowledge will be worth nothing due to 500 extra steps required by the customizations.
• Security will make sure you cannot use any tools you're used to.
• Nice Apple laptops will feel like an ancient machine.
• You cannot disagree with your manager, or you can get pipped.
• Be prepared to be teaching "staff" engineers.
• Postgres is the big hammer. Streaming? Postgres. Messaging? Postgres. Big data? Postgres.
• Chat as a single source of truth.

Basically, this is a place for people who started to work at Adyen at the beginning of their careers without a clear vision of the market.

I tried and gave up. I think the company will keep doing good due to the merit of the sales.