Adyen reviews

As many other software engineers have mentioned, it is a pain to work as a developer. Every time you need to pull software changes, the IDE is going to re-index the entire code base and you need to re-deploy huge chunks of code even if you changed a single line only, both steps can take up to 40 minutes of your day. When you push your changes, it is very common to wait 2+ hours for the CI/CD pipeline to finish. But the biggest problem of all is how the leadership undermines any initiative to change that scenario, and maintain the bomb of spaghetti code lines that we have . We have a saying that reads "We embrace new technology when it has clear benefits", which it is obviously not the case. For example: people have to fight hard to be allowed to use Mockito. That is correct. Mockito: the simplest mocking framework out there, is not suitable for Adyen, but it's suitable for everyone else, God knows why. And that is only one example out of many others that I could mention, but I will refrain from scaring you any more.

The culture at Adyen was great pre-COVID and adapted well during the pandemic, but over the past year and a half, there have been noticeable changes. Ever since COVID ended, there has been a gradual shift towards micromanagement and excessive control. More than half of the company's workforce was hired during the pandemic, a period when the company was thriving. During that time, leadership delivered numerous speeches praising everyone for their dedication in overcoming challenges, emphasizing the importance of flexibility, and promoting trust in one another to get the job done, regardless of where we were working. Yet, as soon as COVID disappeared, this sentiment vanished. Mandatory in-office days and rigid bureaucratic rules were implemented without consideration for individual circumstances. The experience at Adyen transformed from feeling like you were part of a cool community building something amazing to feeling like you were a cog in a machine that didn't care about you at all. "You've got this" has turned into "fall in line". Both the people and tech are both unique at this company, and it's a shame to see the culture on a forced downward spiral. The top level management's attitude is my way or the highway, and I suspect a lot of us will choose the highway.