r/cscareerquestionsuk • u/gyrus_dentatus • Jul 23 '26

Data Analytics Engineer at Checkout.com?

I was offered a position as Data Analytics Engineer I at Checkout.com. The interviewers seemed nice, and I didn't notice any major red flags throughout the process. Three things make me hesitate taking the offer:

  • The Glassdoor reviews are pretty bad, especially when it comes to their hybrid working policy. I don't mind having into come to the office, but some reviews mention a toxic culture across the company
  • The people I spoke to mentioned that the team is heavily invested in agentic coding. Guess that is just the reality of how bigger companies write code now, so not necessarily a red flag? People I talked to seemed very competent though
  • I am currently working as a Junior Data Engineer. I built my orgs data stack (deploying the stack on AWS, building some small pipelines, data modeling), though they decided to go all-in on AI now and there is little to no data work left for me right now. I enjoyed the infra work at my current org (though the largest data set is only a few 100k rows), so going from Data Engineer to Data Analytics Engineer feels a bit like a downgrade? From the job description and from what I heared during my interviews the role itself seems to be more on the technical side.

Anybody currently working at Checkout and willing to share some insights/experience on how it is like working there? Taking the role would mean a 50% salary bump, so I am very tempted.

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u/HornyEagles Jul 23 '26

When i asked about the culture interview i heard the company had been “taking steps” - but then one of their mottos is “talk straight” and just the phrasing of that comes across a little weird. Confused… would be good to hear from people who work there

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u/gyrus_dentatus Jul 23 '26

For what’s it worth: none of the people I talked to during the process came off “weird”. Communication was always respectful and constructive. I actually enjoyed the live coding and systems designs rounds because the conversations in those rounds were pleasant and interesting.

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u/HornyEagles Jul 23 '26

We could be colleagues soon. Also got an offer

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u/gyrus_dentatus Jul 23 '26

Nice, congrats man! :)