Pluspunten
Since nobody knows what anyone else does at CF, you can put on your CV whatever boasts you want.
Minpunten
During the interview process, recruiters will tell you one thing about overseas working policies, only for management to say something entirely different once you join the company - forcing you to move countries or lose your job.
Although acquired by Version 1, CF is still in a frenzy to hire more engineers for non-existent projects. Over the past six months half a dozen projects have been pulled; only very large, hopelessly dysfunctional companies are desperate enough to extend their contracts with CF. Yet, more and more candidates are being interviewed, regardless of whether they can answer simple questions or have even heard of object-oriented programming. Staff are continuously bullied into conducting interviews with obviously unfit candidates, sometimes to be fired the very next day.
AI is pushed by management like a religion. The financial unsustainability of the current LLM industry, the obvious social alienation, and the avalanche of bugs and security incidents resulting from it are never even mentioned. You’re either a sycophantic AI fan or you self-censor. Yay for diversity and inclusion - except for diversity of thought.
You must pick your own development goal; but if you don't pick the right one (i.e., the latest AI certificate), the company will pick it for you. So you study for several weeks to earn a new AI certificate every few months - one that expires in 6 months but will probably become irrelevant much sooner. It is all for the hype with no practical knowledge gained.
Even when you are building an internal tool or learning a new programming language, management "asks" if you could smuggle some AI into it, even if it is a complete distraction and totally irrelevant.
And even if your CV is selected from hundreds of engineers to win a new client bid, chances are you’ll still spend months sitting on the bench, your talent completely wasted while you wait for work that never materialises.
If you live in the UK, dodge the bullet and say no to any recruiter reaching out from CF. With the latest wave of candidates, chances are you’ll be too busy hand-holding incompetent new hires to actually get any work done.