Pros: There are nice people with diverse backgrounds. Many young people are here.

Cons: Management can put too much pressure. Some older employees dictate architecture and micromanage. There is no room to improve processes as a new person. They bring people from non-CS backgrounds and train them - which is amazing - but then they will often not promote them and give them the opportunities and salary they deserve.

Pros: Former employees being there adds some value.

Cons: The current leadership is very toxic. Since the takeover of CTO from Moonpig, all of the leadership team is Moonpig based. So it is very unsafe to disagree to anything.

Pros: Working at Zopa is as autonomous or as collaborative as you want it to be and that flexibility is a huge plus. My colleagues are always happy to help but I don't feel like I'm being micromanaged or blocked from doing work that I find interesting. I'm able to split my focus between business initiatives and exploratory side projects/improvements which keeps things from becoming repetitive or boring. Overall my work-life balance is great and I genuinely look forward making progress each day!

Cons: Communication between teams could be better and is something that we are all actively trying to improve. Various products have similar flows but all working separately so it's not as simple as learning how one domain works and you know them all. The more consistent and unified we can become, the more efficient and scalable we will be in the future.