Revolut

Technically good engineers. That's it.

• Absolutely toxic culture:

  • Expectations to work overtime.
  • Unrealistic deadlines.
  • Blame falls on developers rather than managers.
  • Demo-driven development.
  • Real problems are monkey-patched.
  • People are treated as expendable.

• Unclear path to promotion: It's hit or miss. If you're lucky to have a decent manager and you are ready to sacrifice your free time for work, you might get it. Or if you've been in the company a long time. Nobody cares about your actual performance.

• Company breaks their own rules: Policies are changed at the will of the company with no notice. Sometimes they even change the policy for the previous period. Like, they backwards apply how the bonus is calculated so that you expected one thing but got way less.

• Company acts cheap: They want to cut benefits to save a buck while spending a fortune on unoptimized infrastructure and processes. The budgets for any kind of event are at the "mom's garage startup" level.

• Toxic people: Long-time employees will make passive-aggressive comments if you dare to ask something. When you try to raise an issue about company behavior, non-affected employees will try to put the blame on you.