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Flexible, offers great compensation

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Zendesk for 2 years
December 3, 2022
Copenhagen, Capital Region
4.0
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Pros
  • Efficient interview process.
  • Great compensation and benefits.
  • Relaxing workday, flexibility.
  • Recharge Friday: a paid Friday off once a month.
  • Thorough, constructive feedback.
  • Good collaboration and processes between teams.
  • Product quality is encouraged and preferred over fast delivery, leading to an overall good developer experience.
  • Learning opportunities and knowledge sharing are encouraged.
Cons
  • Woke culture (e.g., introductions start with pronouns, mandatory HR training about preferred pronouns, sexuality, LGBT+, Women in Engineering Week, Pride Week)
  • Multiple teams maintain massive codebases.
  • Ownership of legacy code is not clearly defined.
  • Deployment has manual steps and can take a couple of hours.
  • Not nearly enough dedicated teams for developer experience, DevOps, and SRE.
Advice to Management
  • Rethink usage of Ethena.
  • Invest more in DevOps, dedicated teams for dev experience.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
5.0
Culture and Values
3.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
5.0
Career Opportunities
4.0
Compensation and Benefits
5.0
Senior Management
3.0

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