Avoid this company at all costs. The tech is embarrassingly outdated. Yes, they use .NET Core, but everything is legacy, messy, and held together with shortcuts. There’s no architecture worth learning from, no modern tooling, and no actual cloud strategy that goes anywhere. You won’t learn anything here. Your skills will stall, and people who leave often struggle to find decent roles because they’ve spent too long working with tech no one wants.
They run one-week sprints and release weekly, but don’t be fooled into thinking there’s structure. There are no proper planning sessions, no retros that mean anything, and zero long-term vision. It’s chaos with tickets. Engineers have no say in what gets built or how. You won’t lead anything. You won’t have the freedom to suggest improvements. You’re just there to fix bugs and keep the wheels turning. That’s all the job is.
The engineering manager is toxic. An obsessive micromanager who doesn’t trust anyone and always needs to be involved in everything. Constantly watching, constantly interfering, and constantly undermining. You’ll feel like you’re doing something wrong even when you’re not. It creates a hostile, high-pressure environment where you never feel safe.
The hybrid policy is a sham. They say it's flexible, but you’ll be guilt-tripped into coming in three days a week for no real reason. It’s not about collaboration. It’s about control. You could be ten times more productive at home, but that doesn’t matter here.
Turnover is through the roof. Over 30 engineers have left in the last two years. Some walked out within days. That tells you everything you need to know. Morale is non-existent and people are clearly not sticking around.
There is no collaboration. No pair programming. If you try working with someone, they act like you’re struggling. You’re on your own. The benefits are bare minimum five percent pension and life insurance. No private healthcare. Nothing that supports you as an engineer or a person.
The company is shrinking. The London warehouse has been shut. A US office is gone. Engineering work is slowly being outsourced to India for cheaper labour. That’s the future plan cut costs, not build better products. Every few months they promise to modernise the tech stack or invest in cloud. It never happens. The same empty statements get recycled over and over.
Their entire product is built around outdated gambling machines for betting shops, and those shops are closing across the UK. There is no mobile strategy, no web innovation. Just a dying business pretending everything is fine.
The culture is fake and full of egos. People act like they’re changing the world when they’re just fixing broken code on a sinking ship. Mental health is completely ignored. People have had breakdowns and gone off sick from the stress. Others just disappear without warning.
Unless you’re part of the manager’s inner circle or constantly sucking up, you’re on thin ice. Hard work doesn’t matter. Favouritism does. This place will drain your energy, damage your confidence, and hold you back. If you’re serious about your career, stay far away. This is where ambition goes.
