Go elsewhere for a fulfilling tech role
Pros
- 50% Lego discount, obviously - generous bonus considering it's a toy company - pretty casual office attire - work life balance pretty good
Cons
- no growth within teams unless someone leaves. - no ambition to grow talent internally so lose motivation quickly. - salaries are not competitive for the field at all - they are riding on the company name a lot with this. Please don't let them. - a lot of the tech is pretty fundamental so not much challenge past the first few months for newcomers. - a lot of management and direction changes the past few years I have no confidence it'll settle soon either. - just because the office looks fun and the product is a loved brand that people think is cool, it doesn't mean it's a good career move. - no one under VP level can talk at events (unless exceptionally agreed upon but I never heard of it happen outside of small lunch&learns once or twice) so hard to network and grow as a department within the industry. - felt like it put my career on hold all in all, absolutely do not recommend the internal tech department, other companies offer more interesting work, better salaries, better benefits (a lot is quite standard apart from the discount). - you can get on well with management as people, but never really saw much advocating for teams higher than that which stunts growth and recognition past your immediate teams. - a culture shock on my part I didn't enjoy and this may just be me, but I found the need for unanimous agreement for decision-making really hard, and suddenly decisions made on things when teams should have been consulted, e.g. the constant reorgs.
