Pros: The work itself was genuinely interesting and the technical problems were engaging. In my experience, many of my colleagues were smart, talented, and good to work with day to day. Early on, the onboarding and mentorship process felt supportive and I was recognized positively for my performance.

Cons: In my experience, the process that led to my termination moved very fast and left me with serious unanswered questions. I personally never received documentation that, in my view, clearly explained or supported the basis for the decision. When I formally requested it, what I received felt thin and incomplete. I also believe a manager whose own guidance directly contributed to the situation was involved in the termination decision, without any independent review that I'm aware of. In my opinion, similar workplace relationships were not always treated the same way internally. I was personally going through a difficult time before this happened, and in my experience nobody checked in or paused the process. When I later asked honest questions about how the decision was reached, I was told there was nothing further to share. To me, that says a lot about how individual employees are treated once they're no longer with the company.

Pros: Interesting technologies developed by the R&D team in London

Cons: - Working in delivery alternates between weeks of boredom then sudden assignments to projects with tight schedules and super high stress levels. - You often have to work outside of working hours to run lengthy spark jobs, but you have to do it on the down low. - Projects follow a very heavy weight cookie cutter pattern that requires extremely long compile times. IntelliJ Idea is the preferred IDE, but sometimes takes 20 minutes of indexing before you can interact with code. - Average developer age < 30 years, so if you're 45 or older, you will have difficulty fitting in. - Unhealthy drinking culture. - A lot of lip service towards being family-oriented, but if medical difficulties require missing many meetings, negatives will appear in your reviews. - Constant company propaganda takes away from what substance they have.

Pros: Fantastic culture and people, really great place for progression and well-being.

Cons: Pay here is relatively low.