Pros: I was employed at the end of another large, household-name scale-up, and there are some parallels for sure. These are definitely exciting times. For me, this is an exciting time as the flexibility to learn and be part of shaping things is still there to be had. There is a real feeling of focus and strategy to help point you in the right direction. Onboarding, from the interview through to the actual start of employment, is probably the best I have ever had. Checkout is setting you up to succeed, and they want you to. It will be mutually beneficial. The people I have encountered at the company so far are brimming with excitement, helpfulness, and knowledge. Also, due to various circumstances, I have had to move my start date multiple times, and this has always been dealt with without any concern or seeming like it was an issue.

Cons: No cons as of yet. I am sure there will be some; nothing is perfect, but for now, I feel all of the advantages will outweigh any cons.

Pros: Great, hard-working people, really dedicated to growth and best practices.

Cons: Upper management is terrible; all decisions seem to go against staff wishes. Frequent layoffs. They will try to prevent career growth at every possible stage. Not flexible with remote working.

Pros: - In the past, a "fun" culture. - Still lots of great people.

Cons: Not a coincidence most of this has coincided with the arrival of the CHRO. The culture has been decimated from the top down, replaced with an "us vs them" mentality between the lower rungs and senior leadership and performative management theatre. * Faux transparency. Lots of candid, "open" communication from the leaders, while laying off swathes of people under the guise of performance reviews. * The performance review process has been turned into a farce, where managers have no power to accurately appraise their reports. Genuine high performers getting passed over because of the need to fit a normal distribution curve within small teams (a basic understanding of statistics would help). * Layers of "politicians" have been installed as a buffer under the leadership, whose only role is to facilitate constant alignment meetings where feedback vanishes into the ether. * Salaries have stagnated. Once paid quite well, now relying on the slower market to keep unhappy employees overworked and underpaid. * Employee satisfaction has tanked. There's way more than I'm going to put down here because I'm just a bit tired of it all. Honestly, the company wasn't perfect before (real diversity problems, bro culture, poor tech) and some things are still okay (people trapped in the job because of the economic climate, tech is "ok"), but it's a real toxic shit show now.