Frontend engineer - good for relaxing, not growing - Front End Developer FARFETCH Employee Review

Snail pace, constant miscommunication, low talent bar, and favoritism. Getting promoted is bragging to the right ppl (your manager) and having a lead that will fight for you, 360 reviews actually don’t matter at all. 90% of frontend work is making very small changes for AB tests, backend work makes very small changes for the frontend. Testing and deploying your work is a nightmare, deployment has recently improved but testing will not for a long time (people have been complaining for years). Too much custom tooling that is soon after abandoned. If you want a low-stress environment, cool people, and don’t care about career advancement or skill improvement, that’s perfectly okay and I believe Farfetch would be a good fit for you. If you care about growth in your craft, career advancement, being surrounded by very skilled people, and being a bit challenged by your job, Farfetch is not for you. The habituation to slow-paced, unchallenging work is real and I’ve seen too many people get stuck waiting for their vesting period to end.