Pluspunten
Checkout.com's reviews on Glassdoor currently are mostly tilted towards a negative representation of the company. This is because the organisation is currently degrading it's staff by a thousand cuts whilst it smiles and speaks the dreaded "we hear you" at every large scale meeting involving the higher leadership team. What is being heard and then implemented is unclear to the lower rungs. The negative feeling around the company amongst it's former and current employees is justified. There are always positives. Always something to squeeze a sense of mirth into the daily glass of bewilderment that accosts the perplexed workers. Some pros then: - The almost weekly changes at this company provide a rightful justification to any employee who places the word "resilient" in their character summary on their curriculum vitae. The ability to sustain a strong sense of mental wellbeing until their inevitable departure from the organisation - voluntarily or quietly informed of their redundancy - will endear them to any future employer. - If you are a keen follower of the theories of Charles Darwin around evolutionary development you will thoroughly enjoy observing the effect of the twists and turns upon the mentally stretched workforce. There is a unique twist to this particular experiment though. Survival of the fittest is certainly a core component of this organisation's ethos but they also like to keep even the fittest on their toes by periodically ending the employment of individual's deemed in the top tier of talent and ability. It really does make you feel safe and part of a family in a company that wants you to help them on their journey to attack and bring down the Paleolithic powers of the old world of corporate payments. - For those fans of conducting studies into the preponderance of cliquish behaviours in corporate hierarchies then there's a juicy case study tantalisingly waiting for you to delve your keen mind into. Hey, who wouldn't look after their mates if they had worked hard to create and operate a business now valued at billions? I know I would. You would too. Let's not judge the cardinal's of Checkout.com whose infallibility has led to a culture of fear and an increase in the subscriptions of Rosetta Stone's French modules. Let's just say that the cabal currently reigning over this payments upstart could cool it down a little bit and would benefit from a dressing down reminding them that they are not medieval barons who must subjugate and be ever wary of those they profess to protect and want to help develop their careers. - There's also free breakfast and lunch.
Minpunten
Before I proceed with a highlight reel version of the negatives surrounding being employed by the growing juggernaut of financial technology, I would just like to say that, as someone who joined this company hoping to be apart of something that was working to change an industry and to play a role in helping to shake up the old fashioned behemoths out of their complacent slumber, it was saddening to discover the sheer level of managerial ineptitude and petty politicking that is gripping this company. Seeing your Machiavellian plots bear fruit when your corporate foes are dragged down to the point of voluntarily resigning is fun don't get me wrong but what a waste in terms of the wider picture of truly holding the legacy companies to account for their inability to evolve. Who knows, maybe a brave soul will rally to the challenge and work to improve the effectiveness of management and align those mid and high level leaders to the company's overarching goals. Something has to change. My review is getting out of hand, some quick bullets: - Silent redundancies staged over the course of many months. - Forced increase in office days despite overwhelming opposition. - Expectation of working beyond the already high level of contracted working hours. It is heard many times that wellbeing is key and that people should not feel like working beyond the hours they agreed to work when being employed. Then people receive rewards for doing this very thing consistently. - "We hear you" is an oft repeated phrase. Do not be fooled. This company and those higher up could not care less about you and will drop you like a bad habit as soon as look at you if they deem it necessary. - People Team is fully dedicated to cowing the workforce. All HR functions work to protect the company. Don't expect the HR function at this organisation to take any interest in any concerns you raise - any issues would only be taken seriously if they can be seen as inflaming any negative press for the company if word was get out there. - Not met one person who would happily see themselves at Checkout.com in five years time. I'm sure there are people in the organisation who do but my spidey senses tell me they are few and far between. - Tell you what, those rubbery wraps were one of the worst lunches I've ever eaten in my entire life.
