Pros: High Salary for a Few Years

Cons: In such a toxic work culture, it's incredibly challenging for individuals with additional responsibilities to thrive. What’s the point of offering mental health sessions after disrupting someone's mental peace in the first place? Repeated layoffs under the guise of 'poor performance,' while continuously hiring new people just to see who is willing to work 12–15 hours a day, only adds to the instability and emotional strain.

Pros: Lots of opportunities for gaining experience.

Cons: Too much red tape slows progress.

Pros: Best pay and benefits you can get in the UK tech sector from mid to senior IC positions.

Cons: The performance review tends to set employees against each other. Although it's not everywhere, as some teams manage to create great collectives, the status quo always degenerates into a rat race where you do not know whether your colleagues are peers or competitors. It's very toxic. There is no accountability from leadership. From mid to C-Level, they cannot figure out a proper strategy, avoid making decisions, and then blame ICs for poor performance. (Heard of the year of efficiency, increased intensity, yeah, all that.) The company is the most US-centric, which treats London like a dumpster for projects Americans do not want to do and takes away successful projects created here. The tech stack is all internal, so it can set your career back in certain domains like data and ML.