Realex Payments Reviews

Pros

Great city centre location with lots of transport routes and solid choice of places to eat. This area of Dublin is only going to get better with the new building work that is going on around the office.

Realex is a fantastic place to grow your career if you're willing to apply yourself. You'll be working with some very best people and the latest technology. On occasion you may have to dabble with some older tech so you'll be getting a wide variety of experience.

Realex lately are quite flexible in terms of the work environment, having recently renovated the desktops in favour of laptops, there are quite a few people working remotely when it better suits them. There seems to be a lot of opportunity for travel if you're in to that.

Free coffee and lots of free fruit. Occasionally there is beer and pizza in the office while someone gets to show off something clever that they've been working on.

Great social aspect to working at Realex, you'll probably be out on the tear with your colleagues a lot.

Sports and Social have a healthy budget too, for company social events, they organise all sorts from Secret Santa, to charity based events, to cinema trips and the odd drinking session.

Advice to Management

Keep improving the company the way you have been. Increase the frequency of the feedback loops you get and implement tangible change based on recurring trends.

Create a buzz-word free zone

Pros

Good people to work with

Pros

some perks like nespresso coffee, pool table, S&S etc, made some good friends there

Advice to Management

stop being tight get an IVR line rather than expecting Support to be secretaries

Pros

Some good people, nice work environment, good office and a decent work life balance

Advice to Management

You're doing something wrong anyway, the turnover of devs is ridiculous

Pros

pay was good, good location, and young energetic workforce

Pros

The people are all generally nice, and friendly. The product development team do some genuinely interesting work. The SDLC had some severe problems before but is genuinely improving lately. (At time of writing, that is.) Certain teams also give great opportunities to gain experience and skills.

Okay benefits.

Advice to Management

Don't allow people to run teams by virtue of being there the longest. Just because you're most senior doesn't mean you have any leadership skills. There's a few team leads who could do with being bounced to something they're more suited to. Not that they're not talented, just that their talents aren't in team leadership or people management.

Pros

high bonus per bank holiday

Pros

Good city centre location, VHI coverage (after probation), generally nice people (though some grumpy!) and a foot in the door for recent grads.

Advice to Management

Stop adopting the short term and superficial 'quick buck' approach coming from across the Atlantic. Go back to what made Realex a great company by creating a vision and building a philosophy that makes great products for customers and provides an encouraging work environment from employees, otherwise obscurity beckons.

Pros

Phenomenal people - great craic, incredibly open and helpful. Challenge each other to perform at a high level, but in best possible way.
Great opportunities for career development, both within Realex and branching into its parent company Global Payments.

Advice to Management

Continue to invest in product and people. Nurture the brilliant culture.

Pros

Great People.
Fruits twice a week.
Loads to learn.

Advice to Management

Hire more support agents.
Be more transparent about the exams and the expectations of the support role.