Zopa

Very good work life balance, you don't hear about people working beyond 5PM other than on the week of new product launches and it's usually made up to those involved pretty well. Nice new office although it feels like we've outgrown it already at times. Some upper management seem very energetic

Despite the energy the company feels a bit directionless. There's a vague goal of "home of money" but that doesn't really connect with me in terms of actual direction for the company.

The company is moving towards AWS with TypeScript but still focusing on hiring Kotlin developers, but we don't really have TS developers who could do the interviewing. There's a big push to AWS serverless but people are confused when you say you're adopting it?

There seems to be a lot of "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing" on every level from top to bottom.

It's a company with great people but the lack of clear direction is making people look elsewhere, especially now that we're in Canary Wharf and every other retail bank will pay 30% more for the same amount of work.