Avoid the restaurants department - Software Engineer Deliveroo Employee Review

1.0
16 June 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Successful product, Good base salary

Cons

Toxic middle management, I work with a senior manager who fired all the managers under him to increase his direct headcount, and then blamed others when productivity dropped. You will do very little engineering work here, most of the time you will be stuck in meetings for half of your week, because the codebase is so entangled and there is no real ownership of anything. The CEO is obsessed with saving money without realizing the trade offs he's making. Everything is so inefficient here that its really hard to feel productive, but at the same time you're always exhausted.

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Cons

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2.0
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Recommend
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Pros

The company is presented as a young and dynamic environment, at least from an external communication point of view.

Cons

Unfortunately, the internal reality is very different. Career progression mainly favors people who are close to management or who know how to please the right individuals, while meritocracy clearly comes second. Losing valuable employees does not seem to concern upper management at all. Many department heads lack experience and competence, which leads to constant issues, misunderstandings, and organizational problems that directly impact daily work and team morale. The company promotes itself as “young and dynamic,” yet hires employees over 60 whose experience does not appear to be properly assessed or effectively leveraged, creating a strong inconsistency between image and reality. Salaries are not competitive compared to the market. Salary increases and bonuses are very low and demotivating. Benefits are either almost non-existent or purely symbolic.

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