Pros
- nice london office centrally located - coworkers are nice - great wlb - chilled culture - some talented ppl but really varies - varies a lot depending on your division and group
Cons
Depending on the group you're in but where I'm the senior leadership is terrible resulting in change in manager every 6-12 months. Some EM have no engineering or managerial experience or they have someone with only a few years of being software engineer become EM. This has a cascade effect where projects are chaotic disorganised and long overdue. People who openly admit they do barely any work and know anything get promoted. I've seen ppl who have no cs background and only started using prper IDE 6 months and they do bare coding work get promoted to SDEIII. While the rest of us who worked hard and improve our knowledge and do a lot of work don't. There are people who are so incompetent and do barely any work but are relatively senior and paid well. There's so much chaos and disorganisation it's becoming a joke. No wonder the company is losing its competitiveness. This is a sinking ship. They don't value good engineering here. Business, TPM with no tech background are the rock stars and get promoted and paid lots and are treated like rockstars and act like project leads even though all they do is organise meetings and do dictation if that. I saw a tpm promoted to senior with only 3 years of tpm experience without tech background/education and another to Director of Eng without tech background/education. Despite this, you'd think they can hire someone really nice but no they're unprofessional, gossipy and toxic. It's an insult and a farce while very good engineers doing the hard work take years to get to senior and we get impatient and leave. It's OK for short time.