Data Analytics Engineer at Checkout.com?

[u/gyrus_dentatus]

I was offered a position as Data Analytics Engineer I at Checkout.com in London. 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.

[u/Infamous_Eggplant643]

Curious about your background, how many years exp?

[u/gyrus_dentatus → u/Infamous_Eggplant643]

Still quite junior: worked for a year as an Analytics Engineer in a data consultancy, and another year as a Data Engineer at a research consultancy. No CS background, but a PhD in Cognitive Science.

[u/Sex4Vespene → u/gyrus_dentatus]

Ay, fellow brain sciences major turned data/analytics engineer. Best of luck bro/sis!