Promised much, delivered nothing
Promised much, delivered nothing
The pay is reasonably good, as is the location in the city centre of Manchester. The new office building is very impressive.
Another web-based company that has made so many failed attempts at a mobile presence in the last 3 years, it's embarrassing. The quality of the engineering is pitiful, with an obsession on quick fixes and hacks to increase 'conversion' as opposed to anything scalable or robust. From the top down, the bullying, call-center culture the business was born out of still permeates.
If you are a software engineer who wants to be challenged, Rentalcars is not for you. If you want to argue the toss about A/B testing on native apps or backend API design with inept management, then fill your boots.
As an aside to this, the hours are unusually long (40/week), and there is absolutely nothing in terms of personal development or staff perks. You even have to provide your own coffee - archaic...
Dump the senior management who contribute nothing other than drawing large salaries, and get a decent technical strategist in there.
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