Best company I've ever worked at! - Senior Software Engineer Deliveroo Employee Review

5.0
28 Mar 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fast-moving tech startup, where I've worked with some of the smartest and most hard-working individuals in the world. It's great to be able to working amongst people who have previously built and scaled companies such as Twitter, Facebook, Netflix and Google. The people & environment are very friendly, and make it a real pleasure to go to work every day. Everyone also has a very healthy attitude towards working from home and flexible working hours. We often have team nights out and drinks after work. No expense is spared on learning materials, bring influential speakers into the office and generally developing one's career. There is a great culture of open and honest feedback, with a real emphasis on improving process so that problems of the past never happen again. This was eye-opening for me, coming to the company as you can see how much more efficient and politics-free everything becomes when everything is out in the open. Free food on Fridays :)

Cons

Honestly, not many but here's a few small ones: The company has grown so rapidly that there sometimes seem to be basic things which should have been fixed long ago, but no-one has got round to it yet. Much of the core business still depends on an large monolith application (which is slowly being de-composed) but this does cause friction sometimes when wanting to move quickly and ship a feature. I have been lucky to not have to work regularly within the monolith. We care constantly hiring new people, which is great, but this means it sometimes becomes harder to keep tabs on everything that is going on and what everyone is working on, as you would do in a smaller startup.

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Pros

The company is presented as a young and dynamic environment, at least from an external communication point of view.

Cons

Unfortunately, the internal reality is very different. Career progression mainly favors people who are close to management or who know how to please the right individuals, while meritocracy clearly comes second. Losing valuable employees does not seem to concern upper management at all. Many department heads lack experience and competence, which leads to constant issues, misunderstandings, and organizational problems that directly impact daily work and team morale. The company promotes itself as “young and dynamic,” yet hires employees over 60 whose experience does not appear to be properly assessed or effectively leveraged, creating a strong inconsistency between image and reality. Salaries are not competitive compared to the market. Salary increases and bonuses are very low and demotivating. Benefits are either almost non-existent or purely symbolic.

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