Pros: Work culture was the best. A good amount of training was provided. Yes, we got free food, and overall it felt like a dream place to work in.

Cons: Talking about the "backstab"! The management never really had a clear idea of what they were doing. Without thinking whether or not they really needed interns for future resources, they took on plenty of interns, promising them full-time jobs. Interns, being students placed from college, had their entire hope on Toast, since almost all interns performed well and were put inside teams. They gave more hopes by extending the internship period beyond 6 months. BRUH! And then they laid off everyone, giving us a lame excuse of "We unfortunately are facing budget issues and can't convert you guys to FT." It was so obvious all this happened because of miscommunication and also because of the new VP from Bangalore. I hope everyone around here came from a middle-class background and reached the level where they are. I just hope they would know that all interns are from middle classes too and would be able to relate how they would feel if they lost their jobs unfairly. Lies... Budget problem? But so many were promoted. If there was really a budget problem, a decent company would have held up promotions and managed these large amounts of interns.

Pros: Really great place to work.

Cons: None that I can think of.

Pros: Flexibility in WFH One of the best health insurance plans 400 euro bi-annual voucher to spend on home office / amenities 1050 euro education stipend 900 home office stipend which has been deprecated as of May 2024 and has been replaced by the 400 euro bi-annual voucher Often breakfast / lunch from various customer restaurants of Toast in Dublin Often team events Often volunteering opportunities with Toast.org Very nice volunteering program where each employee receives 25 euro to donate to a selected charity through Toast.org 4 weeks sabbatical after 5 years of service In office snacks / coffee / drinks (alcohol and soft) Rich parental leave program All the other standard benefits - Tax Save / Bike To Work

Cons: Toast's unlimited PTO is a tale. When I started, it was promoted as unlimited; however, that quickly changed to be flexible. Toast gives 20 days statutory PTO, which is a rolling balance, and any days in excess of that are at the manager's discretion. Non-production environments are a nightmare, often non-functional due to too much freedom to release breaking changes. This has often caused days of delays trying to figure out why pre-production is unstable and non-functional, leading to high levels of frustration and low morale in the team. Some technical decisions are questionable and non-logical. One of them being that DynamoDB is being pushed for everything. LaunchDarkly is being used as a feature flag across Toast, even for non-product features, which makes absolutely no sense. One downside of Dublin is that directors, especially in Fintech, try to promote a culture of zero outages/accidents, which leads to engineers being reluctant to declare an incident. This isn't the case with their US counterparts.