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Senior Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Checkout.com for 1 year
November 2, 2019
London, England
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

The engineering leadership is open to using the latest technologies, latest versions of tools, etc.

Teams are given good amounts of freedom to experiment, do R&D, write POCs, etc.

We've had a bunch of training sessions with Amazon AWS people on recent AWS tech and services.

Management seems to actually be good people: friendly, approachable, not micro-managers, and so on. Teams are trusted to do the right thing.

The People team (HR) really tries to put on good events, and to their credit, they are actually quite good. Often, good food and drinks are provided, etc. Recently, there's been more of a push towards physical and mental health initiatives, which I think is amazing.

A very sociable company in general.

Cons

The office is getting packed with all the new hiring (basically impossible to book meeting rooms), although we are moving to a new (and much bigger) office soon, so that should be way better.

Some growing pains in terms of hiring so fast and trying to expand in every way, which makes coordinating on cross-team products hard. Communication needs to be better on cross-team initiatives.

Working with the Mauritius office can be difficult, communication-wise.

Advice to Management

Add further project management/delivery management processes when it comes to cross-team projects/initiatives. This definitely could work better than it does right now.

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