Ocado Technology FAQ

- Friendly and open work environment - Lots of opportunity to improve - Amazing work/life balance

- Difficult to push through initiatives that everyone agrees with, mostly due to senior management

Opportunity for advancement Positive working environment

Slightly below the industry standard for salary

- cool people to work with - Ocado shares if you are staying for a while

- working in shifts at bad hours - some people from management have fixed ideas of who is performing and who is underperforming - things that are promissed in the begining and not mentioned in the contract are not respected - little chance to go up in the company - subjective evaluation

Try to be more objective in your evaluation and provide data for your opinions. Stop spying on your employees qnd check whqt they qre doing every minute - focus more on their overoall productivity.

- smart and friendly colleagues - company is investing in interesting technologies (vertical farming, automation, etc) - opportunity to work on a product at scale - free fruit - free safari online subscription + conferences (if you don't get your request rejected) - company seems to be doing well with a lot of deals signed recently and growing a lot - possibility to change teams

- people team do not help or care even though they spend an hour explaining to newcomers that they help for everything - you have to chase HR a long time in order to get any answer/legal document - too few toilets, they are always full and seldom clean - code quality is disastrous in Ocean (legacy product) and mediocre in OSP (new product) - impossible to work remotely so everyone lies about having doctor appointments or waiting for deliveries to "justify" working from home - no career growth if you are shy as working outside your team is the only thing that is valued to get promoted - SE4 (highest grade for Software Engineer) is impossible to attain unless you work in the platform team - Social event only happens once every two months and you would be lucky to get a slice of pizza and a beer as there is not enough for everyone - No time is given to improve code or processes - low salary compared to London - if you are unlucky enough to end up in Ocean (legacy product) your career will take a massive hit as technologies and processes are outdated and code quality is abysmal. Management too is outdated in Ocean. - graduate recruits are lured in with promises of working on the new platform with microservices but are then told that there is no room and sent to Ocean - free instant coffee is not good - high turnover

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