Toxic for high performers - Software Engineer Adyen Employee Review

1.0
16 July 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Work life balance is good. - Flexible working from home. - Close to the centraal station. - Okay-ish salary. - Agree with your manager all the time, make the platform unstable and you get promoted. - Emails and messages full of emojis.

Cons

- Ancient, unstable, outdated and slow monorepo. - Not Invented Here Syndrome to the extreme. - All technologies will have the "adyen" sour flavour so if you know something your knowledge will be worth nothing due to 500 extra steps required by the customisations. - Security will make sure you cannot use any tools you're used too. - Nice apple laptops will feel like an ancient machine. - You cannot disagree with your manager or you can get pipped. - Be prepared to be teaching "staff" engineers. - Postgres is the big hammer. Streaming? Postgres. Messaging? Postgres. Big data? Postgres. - Chat as a single source of truth. Basically this is a place for people who started to work at Adyen at the beginning of their careers without a clear vision of the market.

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5.0
8 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Food in the office, annual trips, can't complain about the pay

Cons

Limited upward mobility, peers in the industry (Stripe) pay about 50% more

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3.0
2 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

no layoffs yet, nice people, good team

Cons

reorg, acquisitions (layoffs incoming?). product managers not great, turnover

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