A great place to learn and grow - Senior Software Developer Octopus Energy Employee Review

5.0
14 Sept 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Talented co-workers. - Interesting domain. - A lot of freedom to learn and explore. - The management are very accepting of learning by failing, and the team culture is very accepting of this.

Cons

- New joiners are habitually given large projects to work on independently and without a lot of guidance or supervision. This doesn't help with learning team conventions and often pitches people in the deep end. - Work is prioritised inconsistently with many stakeholders approaching developers directly. - Work is undertaken on the basis that 'someone asked for it' without a deep understanding of the problem to be solved.

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5.0
7 Dec 2025
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CEO approval
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Pros

good leave, steady employement, enough lateral movement

Cons

lots of politics, people can be nosey, leadership is a good ol boys club

1
1.0
13 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some members of the company are the best people you’ll ever meet.

Cons

Genuinely a complete mess. Incompetent, passive aggressive leadership that repeatedly makes both poor and confusing company decisions. I have some absolutely crazy stories from things I’ve witnessed here. There’s things that are so bizarre and dysfunctional, they belong in an alternate reality.

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