Ocado Technology Reviews

Pros

- The people. Everyone is bright and ready to help.
- The culture. High focus on people and well being, no stress, a lot of room for experiment with a no blame culture, deep craftsmanship and opportunities to learn...

Advice to Management

Open offices in London

Pros

The company shop is alright

Advice to Management

I don't know how you screen your people and what kind of personality checks you do, but you better change it to avoid spending all your time recruiting people. Because that seems to be a rather large focus at the moment.

Pros

Nice and friendly culture to help and encourage software engineers to utilise their knowledge, expend their skill set and release their creativity.

Pros

Career progression and wonderful people

Pros

I would definitely recommend friends to work here, I’ve been here a few years and think it’s great
Great people to work with
Open-ness and willingness to improve as a company
Low stress work environment
Plenty of opportunities to learn, explore, make mistakes as a developer
Teams are given plenty of freedom to work in a way that makes sense for them
I’ve moved teams internally a couple of times, and I’ve always had support from my team leads and wider company to do so
Giving and receiving feedback is encouraged and managed really well, I’ve found it to be a really positive experience
Never had any problems booking holiday
Flexible working hours (core hours policy allows you to come in and leave when it suits you)

Advice to Management

Allow teams to experiment with remote working more
Improve your maternity/paternity package

Pros

Great culture, with a real desire to grow. Management are generally as supportive as they can be in offering developers the freedom to explore, experiment and fail.

Advice to Management

Hire people, aggressively hire people

Pros

Good working environment with lots of different technology to work with

Advice to Management

When applying for a new job which is advertised externally & internally why would you make the applicant go through a promotion board

Pros

- get to work on exciting projects
- rarely bored/always busy
- fast growing company
- lots of responsibility

Advice to Management

Invest in your people or you will have to spend more in the long run on recruitment.

Pros

Great environment to work in. Very open, trusting, and collaborative with a focus on letting software engineers do what they do best everyday. Ocado Technology, unlike many other companies, actually do Agile properly and allow each team's implementation to vary depending on the product needs and team fit. Tech stacks can also vary from one team to the next, because Ocado Technology want people to experiment with the latest cutting edge tech and incorporate it into their products if it's the right fit. The company also has a very flat hierarchy, with many opportunities to chat with management at all levels. It's very rare to see agility and willingness to improve and learn at an upper management level, but I can honestly say that I see that here. Overall, great place to work!

Pros

None to talk of. you get paid for the work you do.

Advice to Management

Tim Steiner, well he is busy building it up, as the Middle Management sabotage the Staff who keep company afloat, and god bless Eastern Europeans without whom Ocado as an entity would cease to exist.