Student life all over again: crazy deadlines, insane stress and living on a tight budget
Pros
Visa sponsorship, relocation allowance, unlimited paid time off, flexible working hours and Lego Days, which are 2 days every quarter for you to work on anything you want, literally anything.
Cons
The most obvious con is the salary: even in some parts of the country where the cost of living is lower like the North West you can easily find better salaries for the exact same role. As for their flexibility, that's indeed a great perk but there are some small prints that I think everyone looking to join the company needs to read beforehand. Their website states "Want the freedom to work autonomously? At Simprints we don't dictate hours, and this is no 9-to-5 job. We work incredibly hard, and trust each other to be responsible with how, where, and when. In the end, we care about quality results." In theory that's lovely but reality drifts far from it, I'll break it down bit by bit. - "We don't dictate hours, and this is no 9-to-5 job": most of your days will be packed with meetings within that time frame. If you don't feel like working from 9 to 5 that's fair enough, you can start your day earlier or finish later but you'll definitely be expected to be working at that time as well. - "We work incredibly hard": true, they definitely do. Incredibly hard in this case means beyond your limits most of the time. You'll have to deal with an awful lot of pressure, stress, insane deadlines and long working hours. Stress for example got me almost to the point of a burnout, I've never been to a psychologist's appointment in my entire life but on this job I had to. - "and trust each other to be responsible with how": depending on who you are you may have some people watching every move you make. - "where": if you don't want to work from the office, good luck, you'll need to pitch for it and wait for usually 6 months to a year to get an answer. Quite funny for a company that claims to hate bureaucracy. - Diversity and inclusion: there are indeed lots of people from all sorts of backgrounds and ethnicities which is definitely NOT a problem, it's great! However there's absolutely no diversity whatsoever when it comes to opinion. If your opinion doesn't fit into their agenda you're screwed. They also love to talk about politics at work, even though it's quite unprofessional and often leads to division, but division isn't that much of a problem since almost everyone thinks exactly the same way and it seems like if you don't you'll end up having to leave sooner or later, very diverse indeed!
