Trayport Reviews

Culture of bullying and intimidation in the Technology department, led by the CTO. Constant job threats for having even a slightly different opinion makes work stressful. Keeps making the same mistakes, and what used to be at least current with technology is now hopelessly behind the curve. They follow the "Half Arsed Agile Manifesto" more than the real one, and they are adopting tools and practices in the "hold" on the Thoughtworks Technology Radar (i.e. TFS) Projects overrunning by months being touted as success leads to lower morale in the teams that continually deliver business value. "Superstar" teams who never finish are rewarded with praise, while those on brownfield projects are chastised for not predicting what idea of the month is being implemented this month. Lots of half implemented ideas have led to lots of fragmentation across the company as nothing is ever finished when it comes to effecting change. Example, there was a goal last year to unify tools to 1 strict toolset. They have doubled the number of tools. One month QA were moved from Technology to Delivery. 2 months later almost all the QA were made Developers. Most of them have zero developer experience, but are great QAs. Massive switch in terms of quality of people hired. Used to get top candidates with years of experience. Most new hires are fresh out of university and have no experience of working on large legacy codebases. Lots of mistakes are made, and these are blamed on the senior guys. Easiest way to get hired is to be friends with or related to the boss - qualifications don't matter then.

Trayport is the master of propaganda. They say you will be able to learn interesting technologies and then you learn how to meet deadlines by cutting corners. They say you will work in a relaxed atmosphere and then you face witch hunts and bullying. They say you will work with talented developers and then you discover that most of them left already. They promise internal mobility, but what they really mean is moving desks (Trayport loves to shuffle people). You read some great reviews here and then you discover that they are fakes written by Trayport management. A special thing about Trayport is their obsession with processes, methodologies, Kanban, Agile, Scrum, you name it. Management sees and abuses methodologies as tools to micro-manage engineers. Before deadlines Trayport uses the following "methodology": in the morning you are told what to do, and in the evening you report status to managers. And, because propaganda is important, they say it is Scrum (just with one day sprints).