Good place to work, with downsides - Specialist Software Engineer Nationwide Employee Review

4.0
Jul 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Good place to start your career as a junior software engineer. Lots of training available, lots of options for different teams you can work on, different programming languages and technologies. Pretty good benefits especially for retirement. Very chill work culture and good WLB on most teams. Nice people, I made some good friends here.

Cons

Pay and raises are low compared to competing employers. Sometimes you may have to work with low quality legacy code. Communication between teams is mostly good, sometimes bad. Sometimes the work culture is a little TOO chill: there are some people here who coast and get away with low performance. If you're a high performer, you'll likely grow out of this company. Risk of layoffs or other big changes like any other company.

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5.0
Mar 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

We can wfh 3 days a week

Cons

Upper management likes to make organization changes frequency

4.0
May 17, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-For the most part, the people you work with are good people. Made real lifelong friends and mentors. -As with all large companies, there are plenty of opportunities to advance and/or move around if something isn't a good fit. -One of the rare places still offering a pention

Cons

-Office politics promote plenty of people who don't deserve it and the teams happiness is highly dependent upon who you end up reporting to -WAY too much false urgency created by bad leaders -Big company means slow moving in all the stuff you want to go fast. Often times too many cooks in the kitchen

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