Worth joining if it's 2020, not worth in 2026
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
In general, the community is really nice
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Unclear direction, unclear responsibilities and ownership: teams are getting mixed, constantly lying about career prospects and initiatives for employees (every all hands is: "Q3 has been nice; however, we're holding tight still, so no budget, we have to resist for another quarter for updates there; Q4 needs to be better" since years)
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Apply meritocracy, admit the current issues and listen to employees
Arbeitsatmosphäre
There is no praise, nor meritocracy for good deeds. In this matter, the company behaves like a traditional Austrian company: connections and public image matters more than work done
Image
Employees feels undervalued and it's possible to hear that often in the offices and get togethers when talking to people. In general, it feels the overall sentiment is declining, mostly due to uncertainty with company's direction and career opportunities
Work-Life-Balance
Very dependent on the period: sometimes it's pretty good, sometimes it's pretty bad. It's on constant decline in the past years though, it feels like the company is valuing work-life balance way less compared to 5 years ago. Also there could be some micromanaging depending on the team and manager
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Horrible. There has been work in the past years to create docs to follow to have an objective overview of career status, but it's just a facade and it's not actually implemented. Basically now HR can say "we have this framework so no more complaining about non-clear career paths", but it's just ignored.
Furthermore, you can often see promotions to people clearly contradicting C-level 'initiatives'; again, image is everything in this company, not work done.
Gehalt/Benefits
Salary is not competitive unfortunately.
Careful about benefits: they are getting gradually removed years after years, so many reviews could be out of date:
- hours are not really 'flexible': you have core hours which you have to attend
- work from home is despised and the company is pushing more and more to force people more days in the office (1 to 2 days a week at the moment, depending on your distance to the closest office)
- budget to work from home has been cut
- bridge days have been cut
- company events are rare, and usually happen like once per year
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Often there is confusion about ownership; there is also not much teamwork, work is mostly individualistic
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Employees are not involved in high-level decisions.
In case of conflict:
- usually C-levels just ignore the difficult questions by deviating from the argument
- managers focus on their frameworks, so it feels like talking to a robot, hence useless
- conflicts with other employees can depend: usually the older people in the company gets priority every time even without having a logical discussion
Kommunikation
Sometimes communications is clunky, people takes hours to reply and there is no clear owner, so you can get ghosted when asking questions to other teams. Managing geo-distributed inter and extra team communications could be improved. There is no information sharing about specific results, successes and profits apart from generic data in the all-hands
Interessante Aufgaben
Very seasonal: sometimes the company wakes up and wants to do a new product, then some possibilities of interesting work appears; otherwise it's mostly managing churn, and the company works similarly to a consultancy
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Arbeitsbedingungen
Gleichberechtigung
Arbeitgeber-Kommentar
Thank you for your feedback. We're pleased you valued the people and community, though we're sorry your experience falls short. We know communication and career development are important, especially during change. We're committed to improving and are always open to discussing concerns directly, as those conversations help drive meaningful change.