A place where you're forced to pretend everything is ok - Software Engineer Checkout.com Employee Review

- RTO policy: 3 days in the office mandated. This is tracked on a team level, so you and/or your team manager will have to deal with the consequences if 1 person in the team brings the % down. The leadership team has clearly said "if you do not like this policy, please leave the company", which speaks volumes about the attitude of leadership towards their employees. Additionally, this is always framed in a such a way that if there are further questions about this, expect to pack your bags and leave. This is said to be done to encourage collaboration but everybody knows it's to enable micro management. This is without doubt a reason that attrition is so high. - There is free lunch however most of the time it just tends to be a box with cold meat and salad. The best option is hard to get as it goes very quickly. Instead of splitting this across floors, for some reason this is kept on one floor which forms lots of queues and traffic at lunchtime. - Forget about being promoted and decent pay rises. Typically pay rises are below inflation level and promotions are quite hard to come by unless you're loved by management, regardless of performance. - So called 'personal goals' are just a way of making employees do more work for the business for free/outside of working hours. - Regular changes bringing uncertainty and constant change in direction. The leadership cannot decide to stick with one direction. Sometimes due to these changes, your role may change with additional responsibility without the additional pay or even a more senior tag. - Employees are just really treated as pawns. If you care about being treated nicely at work, forget Checkout. You will just be another number on a spreadsheet. - Since office days are Tue, Wed & Thu, if you decide to take annual leave on either of these 3 days and work on Mon & Fri, expect some questions and challenges from management. It is usually granted (because they're required to by law), but can be questioned.