Pros: - Base salary is above average. - If you are lucky, you are involved in interesting projects. - Some microservices have been well designed and tested.

Cons: The overall culture in Revolut is at the same time chaotic and toxic. Once you join the organization, you are labeled as a "B player." On the first day, HR and your manager already put you under high pressure by saying that it's not for everyone to be promoted to "A player" by the end of the probationary period. If you fail, you are not going to be confirmed in the company. You are evaluated on the basis of unrealistic KPIs decided by inexperienced managers who have been in the company long enough to be promoted. The company expects you to work 24/7 to accomplish these KPIs. So, expect to work 12-15 hours every day and during weekends with no extra pay for overtime hours. Technical decisions are taken in a rush most of the time, taking shortcuts which can be risky. This company pretends too much from yourself, and this has negatively affected my private life. I accepted the first offer on the table.

Pros: Fast-paced environment where you can see your impact from the very start. Amazing perks and nice startup culture. You will find snacks and drinks stocked all day in the kitchen. You will feel inclusiveness in the company with stock options.

Cons: Sometimes, you have to work for more than 8 hours, but honestly, it totally depends on you. I am still in my probation period, and there were days when I worked even less than 8, so it is totally up to you how you manage your time and their expectations from you. I would say you have to be an A player if you want to work normal hours and deliver at the same time.

Pros: + Generally nice people. + IT requests answered very fast. + Lots to learn about what not to do when you become a leader.

Cons: Technology: I was told Revolut hated using frameworks like Spring, which is great, I thought, since I tend to avoid frameworks too! So I was shocked to discover when I joined that the CTO had written a trash framework himself that he forces everyone to use. Worst of all, if you complain about his framework, he tells you: "It's only a few classes, so it shouldn't get in the way of anything." When it gets in the way of anything, then you fail your probation (luckily, I was never vocal). This means the code at Rev is just a gigantic bunch of hacks around a trash framework. Also, they don't use CQRS. That's just a straight lie. Also, instead of using an existing message queue like Kafka or something else, they decided to build their own, which has so many problems with reliability and missing features, I don't even know what to say. Culture: As you can tell from the other reviews, the culture sucks & they make you work weekends, deadlines, etc. But the worst part of this whole thing is that one day you come in to work & you see your work friend's Slack account has been deactivated – no warning, just fired. This has happened to me a dozen times at Rev now. Also, you'll regularly see people shouting at each other in person, like genuinely arguing in the middle of the floor. HR: There is no HR. The Head of People is a lackey of the CEO with zero HR experience. Also, they monitor your Slack, so be careful. CEO: Nik is a very smart guy! I really like him as a person having worked with him. He's very driven & gives good advice. But, and this is a big but, Nik sadly isn't mature enough to be a CEO of a company in our stage. We need to move the focus away from growth & invest in building PnL, so I think right now is the right time for him to step down and for Rev to find an experienced CEO to drive the company to profitability.