Cookpad Reviews

Staffs have two very different impressions about Cookpad. If you are already familiar with the domain knowledge and tech stacks in Cookpad, and outstandingly strong in Ruby community or independent at work, you will get a positive impression. Otherwise ... Senior developers especially the international team in Japan conduct with bullying manner when discussing anything. Quite often pull requests are blocked with the time difference and we needed to wait for new review rounds till next day. Managers, on the other hand, looked unaware or neglect the fact as far as the senior developers look control deliveries of outcomes. And, they kept asking for unreasonable requests. As a result, newcomers somehow managed to find out a way to meet the deadlines and mitigate the frustration.

Much of the senior development team based in Japan make work really hard for developers based in the UK. Their drive to have a good and clean codebase does not account very well with adapting to the diverse team and ideas, and there is overall a low level of trust between management and senior members. They seem to value most individuals with bullying manners for as long as they get the job done, but that causes other members distress which they fail to address promptly. There is always a try to control everything without putting the extra effort to low the frustration and pressure that comes with it, especially from the management team. Difficult and too scarce communication with too much expectation make it difficult to work there. There is a mix of the "Discipline" Japanese culture and the "I tell you this to make you happy but I won't actually act to make anything better" which is the British way. And this is a very bad mix in the long term.