Pros
Smart engineers, work life balance is questionable - as engineer you will be on call support rota which impacts your personal life.
Cons
Senior leadership on site is supporting and contributing to the toxic culture - talking behind the back of people, creating intrigues. Low performers are tolerated for years despite the fact that they have negative business impact. If you want to be successful in the career growth, you must fawn to senior leadership. Lack of women diversity in senior engineering leadership - just 2%. Company 'values' are not applicable for senior leadership but mandatory for promotion of the engineers. Problems are put under the carpet by senior leadership on site because their main focus is to survive as long as they can in Ocado. Disrespectful attitude by senior leadership on site towards engineers who actually are the main asset. In 2023 there were several rounds of layoffs, 2024 - high level of uncertainty, high demotivation.