Pros
If you're someone that thrives on opportunity to be ambitious, try things and have some autonomy around how you and your team make decisions, TransferWise is perfect. It's fast paced, customer-centric and really pushes you to evolve yourself into someone that can make tough decisions as well as giving and receiving honest feedback.
There are over 65 nationalities working at TransferWise, with people from all sorts of backgrounds, cultures and countries, which means that we're all passionate about the product we're building, and bring new perspectives to the table.
There's a general understanding that people have lives outside of work - whether that be friendships, families, pets. Teams are supportive and flexible in that respect, with the trust that the impact will be made. It's up to individuals to be responsible for that.
Cons
If you're used to being told what to do and can't work through decisions yourself - you'll struggle.
Progression isn't 'linear' in the sense that - you do this thing, jump through this hoop, you'll get a promotion. For me that's actually a pro as you're incentivised to learn and broaden your skillset for real purpose rather than for an artificial goal. However we are still in the point of our company life where we are relatively unstructured about people's development and need to spend more time on this to support people during TransferWise and for life after.
