It was nice until a certain point
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Work-life balance.
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
- Unhealthy culture of favouritism
- Too much workload for really underwhelming incentives and bonuses
- No job security - regular layoffs
- No real employee development/growth program
- No women among C-level managers
- No real growth in earnings even when you get a promotion (max +5% if you're lucky, in most cases there is no salary increase atm)
Verbesserungsvorschläge
C-level and CEO shouldn't micromanager and control every little thing - I have never in my life seen such level of involvement of top management in every Slack channel.
Honestly, I believe in the current situation the only improvement for the company would be the exit, as the top management is clearly not going away, and the core of all problems lies there.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
I should probably start by stating that all positive reviews on both kununu and Glassdoor are written by new joiners during their first week at the company when they are certainly still in the honeymoon phase with their new job, and this is an obligatory task in everyone's onboarding.
It used to be good and fun to come to work, and you could actually feel the sense of belonging, but lately everyone is just doing the bare minimum to meet the expectations. There are certain "friends groups" that if you're not part of, then you won't get invited to lunch or joint activities outside of working hours. There is certainly favouritism present in the company where certain people do the bare minimum but are active in front of the management and get promotions for that, while those who work their asses off don't get one in 3-4 years just because they are quietly doing their job. If you are an individual contributor, don't expect much help from your team, as only questions from C- and VP-level people get quick answers.
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The PR/Marketing team do a great job on that front, no doubt in that.
Work-Life-Balance
Probably the only great thing about this company is that you can adjust your working schedule and hours however you like, provided that you have an adequate manager and you get the job done in timely manner. Some people clearly abuse this by going offline throughout the day and not responding for hours.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
See the points above.
Gehalt/Benefits
Way below the market average. Moreover, the yearly salary adjustments in line with IT-Kollektivvertrag only get granted to a certain number of employees, and there are cases where managers get the respective salary raises while the individual contributors, who clearly earn on average 50% less, don't. You tell me how much of equality this is :)
Vorgesetztenverhalten
The current sentiment in the team is that employee development, growth and happiness is not really the management's priority. While the headcount keeps getting smaller and smaller, the remaining people obviously get more and more work on their shoulders combined with unrealistic expectations to deliver features and integrations under immense amount of pressure from the C-level.
Kommunikation
Communication is very non-transparent, people get laid off regularly and this is presented as a "mutual" decision of both parties, but in reality everyone understands that the company is in a weak financial situation and has to cut costs by firing people. Regular employee satisfaction surveys get distributed but the feedback provided in the surveys never gets actioned, so this is all very superficial attempts to show some efforts.