What are perks and other benefits like at Payrails?

nice office at the heart of the city

Very toxic culture built on doubting employees, gossip and favoritism. Promising features without much input from engineering results in a blame culture directed towards engineers from a management team that has no technical expertise. Zero work-life balance and no benefits of any kind, not even the cliche fruit in the office.

- Fast paced, high energy culture where you can make an impact from day one. - Surrounded by smart, driven teammates who push you to level up - Exposure to end-to-end product challenges in a complex payment domain - Strong ownership culture. If you see a problem you are encouraged to fix it - You can openly talk about problems and bring your ideas - Knowledgeable leadership

- Not ideal for those who need lots of structure priorities can shift - Workload can spike during major launches - Good salary for Berlin but other benefits could be better

You will have some degree of freedom in the design and execution of your work, which can be a good learning experience. However, don’t expect to always have a good mentor or a voice of reason you can fall back to within your team, which leaves you with a sense of uncertainty about your work, especially if you are still in the early to mid stages of your career. Office location and benefits are ok.

Do not expect to have an overall stable or fulfilling engineering experience. You will be met with many unrealistic expectations, forced to execute work that is in a subpar state just to keep the appearance of delivering and closing projects, which you will be later blamed for and forced to clean up when something eventually breaks. Engineering quality is extremely team/project dependent, with no sense of overall company expectation or culture in that regard, even if the complexity of the product demands it. Recognition in engineering teams is mainly catering to fast delivery rather than quality of the work.