Pluspunten
Remote (They say hybrid but you very rarely meet up in person in most teams, great for worklife balance) Medicash (You can write off about 100 quid in dental every working year and about 150 in glasses, it's not a substitute for actual private medical insurance though) Holidays (as long as you're on a competent team, company culture is more aligned to putting yourself first and using your holidays), do note however this does come with the disorganisation of being asked to do stuff with less than a week deadlines due to pressure from "above".
Minpunten
No Salary Increases (you have to apply for another job, the skills framework is a false buffer to enable permanent 1-to-1's with your manager, expect no bumps in pay unless you apply internally for another role) Too many unnecessary meetings, nobody knows who does what so you have to chase people around. Agile for the sake of agile, forced scrum. It's all paper pushing, as noted by the fact they recently made numerous scrum masters redundant. Very minimal, follow-through for occupational health; I cannot say they care much about employee health long-term in spite of how JISC positions themselves. You will burn-out. Not out of being overworked, but out of boredom. You won't work on any of the things in the job description. Code bases are a mess and UX to Dev communication is very minimal and fractured. There are no standardised colours and or design tokens; there is a plan however that keeps being pushed back to focus on other things that are broken. The people that handle infrastructure have no idea what they are doing, and devs do not own their own infra. There is a "glue layer" between them and their deployments that adds friction when you need to ask for and or negotiate any permissions or changes. When there is an issue, you ask them to solve it and they tell you as a dev it is your job, and you have no access to said thing that needs changing. Discrimination it's extremely apparent between both minorities and people with disabilities given comparators of how their counterparts are handled in identical situations. I've had people speak to me directly with worries about how they come off wondering if it's their fault.
