Pros
Hiring is really strong, get great folks with a good cultural match. Tech projects are interesting (for most teams), tech stack increasingly cool (not all microservices but increasingly getting there - there is still a large monolithic code base but company making good progress to isolate / move away from it). Amazing to work on stuff that you can tangibly see the output of with the cool print products. Very people focused. Intentions across the company are good. There are cool initiatives to work together better, improve diversity and wellbeing, even little shout-out things like Deliveroo rewards for shout-outs across the company.
Kontras
Promotions are limited with most of senior leadership & directors hired into their roles from outside the company - no real individual contributors at this level so very management focused. Lot of time spent on planning things in senior circles, which can feel sometimes like context was missed and therefore the feedback loop is slow - linked to fact that many decisions made with breadth and not depth of knowledge.
