Mettle Reviews

3.9

69% would recommend to a friend

(38 total reviews)

Andrew Ellis

58% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Mettle has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 38 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Mettle employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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38 reviews
2.0
26 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The projects were reasonably well resourced

Cons

A high level of expertise is required from any new employee but no training or guidance is offered. Seemed like Management was just waiting for their employees to make a mistake so that they could criticise and demolish the person.

4.0
14 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good people to work with

Cons

All dependent on your role

3.0
9 Mar 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- some people will thrive in this environment, some will feel disappointed - no probation - 35 working hours - good work/life balance - no crazy pressure - decent pay - few months ago it would be outstanding pay, but now more and more companies are offering similar renumeration and Mettle didn't follow the trend - decent benefits - smart people around to work with (not talking about most of management) - opportunity to learn new things - hackathons when they happened, didn't hear about any plans to organise another one for a while - fully remote if you want to (please keep it) - good tech stack

Cons

- 3 months notice if you decide to leave and most likely you'll have to stay for whole period - you can only work from UK, Natwest is apparently considering to loosen this restriction, but we didn't hear about any updates in that direction for very long time - former female CEO has left, temporary fill became permanent even though originally they've been looking for another replacement, is he the best candidate for role? Only time will tell - pay raises this year were really far off inflation even if you got good review - giving more responsibilities to certain team members and no reward to reflect it, at least it helps CVs once you decide to look for another job - on-calls - it's something that you count on having to do. Part of the engineering is doing only in hours, some have to do out of hours too. - management is hopeless, very reactionary, always promising to do better next time, but yet they don't learn their lesson - career progression is questionable - finally competency matrix is being applied after long time of promising it's rollout and some people got promoted. How many other people will get the same opportunity - we shall see. There seems to be limited number of available spots on higher levels and considering that quite a bit of engineering is senior heavy - I don't think that there is much room for everyone to make the next step. - feels like we're now getting yearly re-orgs and not exactly well executed - be prepared for possible line managers changing every few months - there seems to be burst of interest in certain causes, like climate change, diversity, etc. but it always feel like it fades away over time. - as much as there are smart people, there are also people that I don't understand how they can keep their jobs - remnants of work done by agency in the early days - it still haunts everyone whenever someone has to touch the legacy code as it's not much fun to deal with poor code and decisions

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