* Unchallenging tech environment, built on either dated or enterprise technologies. The company fairly recently started migrating their front end to React but there is still a lot of legacy going around.
* Everything moves extremely slow, and 95% of decisions are based on revenue/commercial reasons which means tech debt is constantly pilling up.
* If you're a microservices developer for Whitbread I genuinely feel sorry for you as you'll spend your days writing proxy services between the front end and the back end system which is outsourced.
* Lack of technically minded people in key positions, this means that any technical improvements to the system need to be done bottom up which takes a lot of time and effort.
* Overall lack of strong technical ability among staff outside of a few key people, this is partly due to the weak interview process alongside a lack of probation period.
* Although the bonus has a lot of potential it is based on a very complicated set of metrics, which is their way of giving you a low bonus even though their revenue increased in comparison to last year and that's without considering the sale of Costa where they banked £3.9bn.
