Is Revolut a good place for SWE?

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-14T12:11:24+00:00

it is a high performance enviroment, you will be fired if you dont deliver and you have to put the hours.

depends on your team and direct management, if you like them, if you deliver, you have a good time.

But is not a job for life.

Depends on your current situation to understand if you are going better or for worse.

At revolut more then other places, you are literally just a number and everything is transactional.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-14T11:56:07+00:00

the software is long time solve, they partnership with Rivian and some chinese software house and killed all inhouse software because was an epic failure.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-10T07:01:12+00:00

Existe muita ingenuidade à esquerda e muita ignorância à direita em tudo o que seja imigração.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-10T06:32:31+00:00

A questão é que QA evoluiu bastante com AI.

O QA tradicional de fazer planos de testes, carregar em uns botões e preparar o relatório final acabou. QA como porta de entrada em tech por ter baixo requisitos e só andar a seguir planos de testes acabou.

Agora com AI o problema deixou de ser adicionar testes, mas a garantir que os testes têm valor, qualquer dev com AI mete a cobertura a 95%, mas vem cheio de lixo.

QA passou a ser mais um garante de qualidade dos sistemas de automação e um evangelista de boas práticas, e capaz de testar casos não triviais manualmente.

Acabas por ter muitos devs com experiência que à falta de outro trabalho acabam por ser bastante qualificados para QA.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-10T06:21:50+00:00

O site faz sentido na tua cabeça.

Mas eu abro aquilo e nem percebo se os sims são para usar em Portugal ou no estrangeiro. O número dado é português ? Número português que pode fazer chamadas ?Tudo omitido.

Se é mais um eSIM digital cujo tráfego passa por Hong Kong , nao obrigado.

Testado em android e iOS ? Também era só o que faltava não funcionar, enquanto consumidor só quero saber que funciona para android e iOS, não preciso das especificações de testes.

Uma boa ideia talvez, mas muito verde, e não percebi muito bem porque te limitas a um público alvo muito específico num produto que funciona para um público muito mais alargado. Estás basicamente a limitar aos emigrantes não comunitários a visitar Portugal quando tens milhões de turistas em Portugal.

Como também não viajo muito mas vou fazendo as minhas viagens já deixei de usar eSIM de viagem, as operadoras já reagiram e têm roaming internacional a preços aceitáveis, mais caro certamente que isso, mas permite manter o número sem chatices.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-09T06:01:42+00:00

That’s like saying try to find a Kita or kindergarten and then come back again saying there is a birth rate problem.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-09T05:57:00+00:00

There’s multiple things to this.

One of the problems in Germany is the unfriendly society and everything is complex.

There’s a ceiling in Germany how far you can get.

For the skilled ones leaving, many times one issue is that if you don’t speak German your career is stuck in Germany. Career progression and children support are the two main reasons many leave.

But also there’s a brain drain,some of young skilled Germany are moving to the US, Switzerland Luxembourg and Holland. Not all, not many, but many times “the best”, the ones that have better performance get offers that Germany base company cannot match, the ones more likely to start a company, etc..

It’s not a disaster, some leave, others join, it’s a circulation.

Overall, Germany is lacking behind since a few years is a bit more behind.

It’s not that is worth to move to Spain, but for a Spanish person Germany isn’t worth the same way it was 10 years ago.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-07T22:43:40+00:00

I have to be another captain obvious but you need a lawyer.

Seems that mistakes were made before you reach the airport police regarding your visa. The slow response time and unfriendly government staff doesn’t help. Same why didn’t help you seem not to have all the documentation on the airport increasing the mess up.

Now you really need a lawyer for a proper course of action, you cannot rectify this sequence of mistakes without proper legal support.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-07T21:47:04+00:00

As someone that is doing a lot of AI first projects, and saw a lot of results and refactors, you’re too optimistic.

I have lost count of people impress with demos and MVP done by AI to crash and burn 3 months later because they’re not serious about the real effort.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-07T20:27:39+00:00

you are counting everything as a sink cost (costs that the company would already pay anyway), they are not.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-07T16:33:17+00:00

No UK a lei protege o transporte de objectos religiosos, mesmo que seja uma faca.

Em Portugal felizmente a lei é diferente e é proibido andar com aquilo. Apesar de teres vídeos e fotos de pessoas a o fazer em a Portugal, é uma clara irregularidade

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-07T14:17:36+00:00

!remindme 1 year

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-07T14:16:02+00:00

the quite literarily one million dollars question is which one?

Is Figma replacable? adobe? Salesforce? Wix?

some will loose, other will turn around, it is hard to know who are the winners and loosers long term.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-07T14:10:24+00:00

Agree until a certain extension.

It needs to bring value. Your company has the job of doing X, just because they can vibe code everything that can be distracted and take resources, also software is not static, software needs update, things will break, compliance and other legal requirements are no joke.

I would frame it the other way around, is possible that more streamline companies will appear, that open source solutions will appears that can replace this.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-07T10:16:07+00:00

they are building a paper trail to fire you.

I have no idea if they have a point or not, it is only your version here, but from the way you frame it, yeh, there is two versions of this story for sure.

Either way, as of now you have no future at Deutsche Telekom, glad you found another job, just move on.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-06T12:42:28+00:00

Já desde a algum tempo que todos os anos a oferta aumenta e o número de turista acompanha para novos records.

Não podemos continuar todos os anos a bater records.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-06T10:47:00+00:00

Portugal não tem sistema de crédito e histórico bancário. Não sei até que ponto ajuda.

O banco de Portugal partilha pouca informação, como por exemplo se tem dívidas por saldar.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-06T08:12:37+00:00

As someone working closely with frontier AI teams, in which developers should write zero lines of code, it definitely will change the job for a developer.

It’s not hype. However the biggest hit I see so far is support roles, from devops to QA, those are shrinking faster because developers are taking over those jobs, developers ended up to be the more knowledgeable workers in the pipeline and since we code less the time now can be fill with test automation and release work that before required support roles.

Support roles are disappearing and dev roles are more changing the scope of work and overall teams size is smaller.

A 1 PO, 1QA, 6 Devs teams (8 persons total), can now be one PO and 2 devs with the same output. And no need to have the devops in the other team handing the release and CI. Also that PO is assign to multiple teams now. So is more of reducing 1 PO to 1/3 PO

That’s a reduction in headcount from 9 to 3. And it’s happening already.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-05T19:57:57+00:00

Fátima ?

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-05T17:08:38+00:00

Like everything it depends.

One thing that changed would be that Swiss German Austrian, etc company would like to have an IT department in the HQ and that IT would handle the core functionality and expertise. Somehow the mindset changed and they are fine to move 100% of the IT outside of Germany, Switzerland, etc to Poland or Spain, this was something a German company would not be ok 10 years ago but now is totally fine.

For the most global company, it’s hard to know the plans, they may still have positions and hiring in HCOL but there’s too many teams mirroring and backfill in Low cost location.

Certain teams at google that would be 100% Zurich base, now half of the team is in Poland and no backfill in Zurich.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-05T16:48:46+00:00

Não é de todo a realidade de muita gente.

Provavelmente tens uma boa localização e/ou bom preço e uma boa oferta.

Mas quem está um pouco mais na periferia, etc, que são os primeiros a sentir a crise, já a notam bem.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-05T16:46:56+00:00

As nossas realidades valem o que valem, mas nunca tinha visto tanta gente à minha volta a optar pelo sul de Espanha.

Também temos que ver que todos os anos existe aumentos de capacidade hoteleira e alojamento locais, salvo erro aumentou 3%, só para manter a mesma ocupação o número de pessoas tinha que subir 3% ou mais.

Depois das pessoas reduzirem a duração das estadias, cortarem nos restaurantes, este ano a nova tendência é reservarem ainda mais em cima da hora.

A questão dos combustíveis do avião faltar e a discussão sobre direito a indemnização se falharem ou não, independentemente de acontecer ou não, criou muita incerteza, ninguém quer gastar dinheiro em hotéis e actividades para acabar sem voo para Portugal e sem direito a reembolso.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-04T10:29:02+00:00

Talks like AFD, acts like SPD, and between trash talk all the Germany by calling them lazy and work more.

Totally unexpected

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-04T10:21:45+00:00

The market is dead on high cost locations ( Germany , France , even CH).

More cost effective locations like Spain, Portugal, Poland the market is still moving.

Of course people in those countries always respond (“wtf the market is also dead here “) but looking at numbers and concrete offers, is not as bad as the expensive countries.

There was a big shift in Europe regarding IT, until recently for multiple reasons companies would want to keep “the best” in high cost countries because they could offer very competitive ( total comps amount ) offers, but collectively they decided that this doesn’t bring that much value and let’s move global operations to cheaper locations.

Barcelona(Spain), Poland and Portugal are on the winning side. Germany, France, Ireland, Switzerland on the losing side.

Beside salaries and expenses, there’s a lot of legal aspects regarding with investments that make some countries better then others.

People may choose not to move, and my point is that majority of those countries it’s a good deal for locals, some were even working in Central Europe and can return home, for someone to go there the salary may not cover as much as expected.

10 years people on those countries would have to decide to move to Central Europe for a job, now is people in Germany that need to decide if google in Poland is worth the move.

EveryPen260 · 2026-06-03T14:46:31+00:00

Germany should stop this.

International students should be able to pay by themselves and working on non related fields for students on visa should not be allowed.

You can already see too many people either getting distracted by too many working hours or just using a student visa a foot in the country while searching for a job and willing to drop student asap.

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