Pros
They grow rapidly. IT is almost doubled this year. Also, brand and company have become pretty known. Stuff is very multicultural. For instance in IT you can find people from India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Egypt, Russia, Ukraine, Spain, Austria and others. People are friendly and ready for help. And this goes from the very top of the company. For newcomers there is a coffee with CEO, where people can hear the history of the company and ask him direct questions. Also, there is a entry procedure called smiley list for getting acquainted with all employees in the office and there daily work. For developers there is a budget for training and going conferences. Also, many goes to Berlin meet-ups and share their insights. Professionally, its a good place to gain experience of building scaled high-load web application. Feel the challenges of maintaining such an application, coordinate old and new technologies, participate in its growth. Many of interesting technologies and original solutions. They grow rapidly. IT is almost doubled this year. Also, brand and company have become pretty known. Stuff is very multicultural. For instance in IT you can find people from India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Egypt, Russia, Ukraine, Spain, Austria and others. People are friendly and ready for help. And this goes from the very top of the company. For newcomers there is a coffee with CEO, where people can hear the history of the company and ask him direct questions. Also, there is a entry procedure called smiley list for getting acquainted with all employees in the office and there daily work. For developers there is a budget for training and going conferences. Also, many goes to Berlin meet-ups and share their insights. Professionally, its a good place to gain experience of building scaled high-load web application. Feel the challenges of maintaining such an application, coordinate old and new technologies, participate in its growth. Many of interesting technologies and original solutions. Working time is flexible. Not totally, but normally you can find ways to go for your private appointments. And also, there is no practice of mid-nights builds. Developers don't sit till midnight at work. Every year there are a couple of company team-building events, where you can meet people from other offices. This year there ware a ski event in the winter and summer event in Amsterdam. Also there are some small nice things, like fresh fruits, coffee, Xbox etc.
Cons
As the growth is rapid and merge with Takeaway.com isn't complete, so the company lacks of work process organisation. Teams are not well defined, goals are not well defined, so sometimes you can get your tasks a bit chaotically. Communication between IT and business departments is very limited. Old plain JIRA tasks and only product manager talks with “business” directly. Managers declare going agile but in reality the process is still pretty traditional. Development is also not ideal. CI is not 100% automated, no 100% coverage with tests, no code standards, monolithic applications with much of legacy code. I would rate maturity of development process for 6 out of 10. Of cause, its better than in 70% of other companies and all developers strive to improve it, but without good organisation I doubt it can be achieved.
