Wolt reviews

- Very strong tech, a lot of competent engineers to learn from - Company is growing very fast, good startup experience

I have a long background working for great software consulting companies in Finland and what I've learned is that the project you work on is the most important thing that determines workplace happiness and how much you're learning. Working for a startup or product company, you choose the "project" by choosing the company, and for me the "project" of building a quickly scaling food delivery startup is better than any project I did in almost 10 years as a consultant. I also really like working on a product that I use multiple times per week. Although we've grown a lot in the 2 years I've worked here, the product team (currently just over 60 people) is still fairly small compared to the everything we build, so each developer and designer gets a lot of responsibility and power. It's often a surprise to people coming in for interviews how many things we build, the customer facing app is just the tip of the iceberg. Decisions about the tech stack are left to the teams, but our culture is one where we care more about solving the business problems than playing with esoteric tech - our choices of React in the frontend, Swift & Kotlin for mobile apps, React Native for the courier app and Python + Scala (+ Rust and C++ in some places) in the backend are fairly mainstream - my experience is that playing with crazy tech is something you do when the actual business problem is not exiting enough. Our operations run in many countries, so we're naturally international. This is also reflected on the product side of things, even though everyone is working at the HQ, we have ~50% of the engineers from somewhere outside Finland. English is the company language and spoken also in informal settings like lunch, if and when there is someone who doesn't speak Finnish at the table.