Avantages
Office is local to a nice area for lunchtime walks. Free parking. Free nibbles in the kitchen.
Inconvénients
It's a very conservative company without ambitious growth plans - will talk a lot about clever strategy to grow but the "on the ground" appetite for that growth isn't there in reality. It has capital to it's name (see it's balance sheets) but hasn't grown in the past 5 years by any significant amount, especially compared to it's competitors.
A lot of emphasis is placed on fitting into the team as it's under 20 people in size, so having a fall-out (it happens in business) can be incredibly disruptive. Unfortunately this means there is a reticence to employ someone who isn't like the existing profile which stagnates the business.
If something is too difficult to achieve because of an admin overhead, or because it might upset the order of things or software development, then it is placed on the back burner. This is a company driven by technology for technologies sake (small product features) without pushing that through it's sales channels.
Software development was done fairly slowly, with new features being decided by the management team collected from a pool of trusted customers. By developing a minimum viable product features would get implemented, but there was little to no "phase 2" where those features would be improved to become the truly saleable feature that they should have been.
The company is not keen on people working remotely and the co-owners, who both work day-to-day in the business, have a distrust of their teams, which leads to a frustrating situation of being video called several times a day, as if you are being checked upon that you're actually working. This means there was a lot of coercing of during the early stages of the Covid pandemic in 2020 to keep people in the office, putting people at unnecessary risk as a result. There was a need to have at least 50% of the company in the office when this could have been done 100% remotely without incident. It is after all, SaaS software.
Salary was broadly in-line with the mid-point for this type of role, and the commission plan was based on the whole team hitting 100%. However the targets set need to be achievable and realistic as a result. As stated above, the company had lofty growth plans which didn't materialise in reality but those growth plans meant unrealistic targets. It's not worth incentivising with the promise of up to £20k commission at the end of a quarter if it's impossible to hit those targets. This led to the situation where commission was zero for a period of 15 months.
