Checkout.com

• It is a decent name to have on your CV.
• The tech is decent, but declining.
• The company is growing revenue, but this is unlikely to benefit you because they're very cagey with equity, so much for #betheowner.
• It is a good springboard to move to other companies.
• There are probably plenty of worse companies to work for.

• Management has a very insular culture, and it feels very much like an us-versus-them situation and not a #oneteam situation.
• Better engineers with higher mobility leave whilst less mobile engineers stay, leading to a worsening engineering culture over time.
• There is no focus on good engineering in recent years, only cost cutting #keto.
• They tried to draw focus to the value of benefits like the free lunch and breakfast when discussing salary adjustments at end-of-year reviews, and then went on to cut the lunch budget a few months later.
• Management is trying to drive a performance culture, but the pay doesn't match.
• Everything is urgent, and when you deliver it under pressure, it turns out maybe it wasn't that important after all.
• Management lacks professionalism.
• When the current CTO came in, he dissolved the developer platform team, which says a lot about the value the company puts on good engineering.
• There is a lack of quality, as most teams don't have products which interface with the outside world, so there's no pressure on them to deliver quality, only the #pacematters.
• Management values time in the office above real performance.
• There is high attrition in general.
• The Glassdoor review score fell from 4.6 to below 3 over a period of months a couple of years ago, and it's only picked up recently because new joiners were heavily encouraged to leave good reviews.

It's easy to be the frog in the slowly boiling pot and not notice that the culture has slowly degraded over time. It is up to you to decide whether it's worth staying in or jumping out.