Love my job - Senior Software Engineer Octopus Energy Employee Review

5.0
20 Nov 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Really great people all around. Pretty much everyone who joins is a good fit even if they’re all different kinds of developers - Lots of difference types of work and opportunity for development - Freedom to make decisions including design decisions - Generally a high standard of coding (we have lots of documented conventions which means our code looks nice and is well structured) - Team atmosphere. Someone is always willing to help out and there is no competition. - (In normal times) Friday evening get together with drinks - Regular socials

Cons

- Rapid growth means structures aren’t quite in place yet (though it’s actively being worked on) - Working more with external clients means there are more pressures coming in from the outside and we lose some of what makes us “us” - There used to be a bit more freedom in terms of what things you’d like to work on whereas now it’s a bit more prescribed

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5.0
7 Dec 2025
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Pros

good leave, steady employement, enough lateral movement

Cons

lots of politics, people can be nosey, leadership is a good ol boys club

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1.0
13 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some members of the company are the best people you’ll ever meet.

Cons

Genuinely a complete mess. Incompetent, passive aggressive leadership that repeatedly makes both poor and confusing company decisions. I have some absolutely crazy stories from things I’ve witnessed here. There’s things that are so bizarre and dysfunctional, they belong in an alternate reality.

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