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52 Mitarbeiter:innen haben diesen Arbeitgeber mit durchschnittlich 3,9 Punkten auf einer Skala von 1 bis 5 bewertet.
Interessante Arbeit, Benefits, Arbeitskollegen
Bitpanda thrives on a result-oriented, data-driven, and hands-on approach. It’s a place where radical candor is valued, boldness and competency are rewarded, and unnecessary politics take a backseat to action and innovation. For those who thrive in a challenging and fast-moving landscape, Bitpanda offers a rewarding and fulfilling workplace.
No-nonsense work environment, where quirks and dress-code is less important than competency and teamwork.
Striking work-life balance in a high-pace and performance oriented crypto environment is a challenge, and one that I still need to vanquish. Regardless, the leadership is understanding and considerate of employees' needs.
Colleagues are by far the highlight of our environment.
As for all fast-paced environments, communication can be a challenge: changes and new products happen faster than anywhere else, and yet we rely on communication to make it work.
The nature of the cryptosphere—one of the most intense and unpredictable markets—means every day brings new challenges and opportunities.
C-levels are smart guys. Modern industry, care for employees, great office infrastructure, great partnerships (Bayern Munich, AC Milan, NFL league, tennis and rugby stars). Free lunches, free snacks, free sodas and juices in fridges. Stock options plans.
Place for improvement: the need for efficient, effective and energized Product managers / Project managers is still there. There are several talented Products and Project managers - but the for the company of this size - still should be more. And they should be experienced superstars and doers who deliver.
Lets please be very careful with hiring during potential hypergrowth periods. This could lead to wrong profiles onboarding.
Its dynamic, business and customer oriented. We are here to help the company achieve prosperity and have our share in this success ourselves. Those who think that they can parasite while showing fake work activity - usually do not last long in this company.
Professional experienced employees understand where the company goes, why they are here and what is expected from them. They admire the company. Often those employees have solid experience of working in IT-industry and FinTech, and they are mature and wise enough to compare experiences.
When it comes to low performers, parasite slackers, toxic personalities, lack of professional skills and knowledge -- those employee profiles often start badmouthing management and start calling the work environment "toxic" because its easier for them to justify their own laziness and failures to deliver in their own eyes.
Vacations can be taken any time. No pressure for extra hours (unless volunteer step in). There can be moments to solve the crisis incident and to urgently reply some critical message, but those events do not happen often and do not last more than 30-40 mins.
Company invests a lot in trainings and education. It provides every employee with a free access to Udemy Business accounts with thousands and thousands of training courses.
Bring value to the table and you will be rewarded. Fair market exchange relationship. Its Austria: salaries and benefits are so regulated in this country that its hard to drop the ball here.
Erasable Notepads, recycled pens, cozy location near the lake, surrounded by green lawns. Conveys environmental awareness vibe. The company also participates in charity projects.
Relationships among colleagues are healthy and open. There can be some exceptions, but overall it deserves 5 stars.
We have older colleagues. They look happy.
Managers lead by example. Communication is transparent, meetings are documented. Expectations and feedbacks are documented. We try to be as data-driven and as documented as possible. This provides an opportunity to stay calm, focused and fair. If there is an expectation violation - initial agreement and expectation log is reviewed.
Infrastructure in Vienna office is very good.
Regular Town Halls, recurring meetings and leadership updates help stay on top of the strategy, plans and latest updates.
Women holding C-levels position, women among VPs, women among managers, women among leads, women among experts. I haven't observed any disadvantaged returns, its the opposite. I think Bitpanda sometimes is even too mindful.
Bitpanda is one Huge Interesting Task. Everyone can show leadership potential, come up with initiative and participate in execution, deliver, celebrate achievement. Then repeat the cycle.
Free lunches, if you remember to sign up, and if there’s no glass, metal or plastic in your plate that day
Arbitrary hiring/firing, promoting people based on sympathy rather than skills, not recognizing the problems highlighted by the worker’s council over and over again (even causing some members to leave the company), no dogs allowed unless you’re the boss
Work on your reputation by checking why the call keeps coming from inside the house. Live by your own five rules and standards, as well, instead of using them as excuses for firing competent people and never doing anything about fixing the rot that is coming from the head of the fish…
Colleagues are great, but it is really hard when everything you say can and will be used against you. Weird decisions when it comes to hiring/firing, it all seems very volatile and arbitrary. That makes it hard to feel “safe” or particularly comfortable at work, since you are always walking on eggshells!
I keep being asked why I work at a place with such a toxic reputation. Fintech in Austria is a mess, but even so, bitpanda has a terrible reputation
40h work weeks should be illegal in Austria, where it’s always 38,5h. The company swears it has only two office days a week, but your manager will bully you if you don’t come in at least four days a week.
The company barely has budgets for the AI licenses that should replace half the team soon
No budget for raises or even to justify keeping important teams, but we’re hiring and firing and spending on marketing and cooperations like it’s a bull run and we have unlimited funds
All according to the standards in Vienna
Obviously there are some exemptions, but after over a year at bitpanda, I don’t even trust my own shadow. It feels like most people are just waiting to throw you under the bus, and even your “friends” will turn on you if the wind shifts the wrong way that day…
There are none
They fired the only competent people manager in operations a few months ago. It’s been going downhill for a long while now though.
Choice of Mac/Windows, budget for home office stuff
So many weird decisions when it comes to promotions, hiring, firing, budget allocation…. I feel like high-level, the communication is good, but as soon as you break it down to a more granular level, you find a bunch of managers running around like chickens with their heads cut off seemingly doing what they want and getting rid of whomever questions them or doesn’t “swear allegiance” to whomever is manager that month.
Can’t even have an LGBTQIA+ chapter or participate officially in Pride cause HR claims that “then all religions need to have equal representation”. As if sexuality is the same as a religion or a choice…
The strategy changes so often that it doesn’t matter what you’re working on, it’ll be irrelevant after three months.
Weites Aufgabenpaket, gute Sozialleistungen, stetige Entwicklung des Arbeitsumfelds, gutes Arbeitsequipment
Freunderlwirtschaft, Amerikanische Arbeitskultur, mir kam es so vor als würden die Vorgesetzten gegen einem arbeiten anstatt gemeinsam
Ein gesunden Misch aus Amerikanischer und Österreichischer Arbeitskultur wäre empfehlenswert.
Es sieht am Papier so aus, aber wenn etwas wichtiges ansteht und um 3 in der Früh nicht erreichbar ist (ist im Vertrag nicht hinterlegt gewesen) dann steht man massiv unter Kritik.
Sehr starke Freunderlwirtschaft
Office is amazing, work-life balance and perks are really great. I like stock option program and being part of the big schema.
I dont have anything that comes to my mind
I don't see much topics to improve. Maybe more social events and parties can be organised as before.
Absolutely amazing. There is no better place in Vienna to work
Even though low-performers are trying to damage the image, it is still one of the handful tech companies in Austria that you are feeling safe and appreciated
That's ideal. Often low-performers and irresponsible colleagues (ex or current) finds this negative but I think the opposite. People complain just because they had to answer a few slack message at 5-6pm but nobody appreciate the flexibility to work from home and starting to the day at 10-11am.
It is quite flexible and supportive. As long as you want to grow, it is possible and you always get support.
Salaries are above the job market. Growth potential is high and you always feel that your contributions are appreciated. So far, I always received satisfactory raises without doing any drama. That's one of the best part of the company. You really receive what you deserve.
I really liked that nobody uses Business Card here! That's an old technology and really grateful about digitalisation.
Especially in the last 1-2 years, there is really an amazing recruiting process followed. That ensures to bring only high-performers to the family. Really happy about the collegues and learning a lot from them as well.
Bitpanda is the place you can find people from any age. Everyone are respectful for older or younger colleagues. That mix makes it a perfect place for everyone.
My managers are amazing. They are always reachable and supportive. So far no complains. They also support your growth and mentors you. I had couple of manager changes, they were all great people
As I shared above, it is very calm and stress free. I dont know other tech hubs but at least Vienna HQ is absolutely amazing.
Regular townhalls and C-level meetings are the key to have clear understanding about the vision of senior management.
Company is full of super open-minded people. Also diversity is everywhere. Women in tech and People of Color are highly welcomed.
Bitpanda is a perfect place to grow and develop skills to do lateral moves. Technically extremely challenging and interesting topics are what you deal. This is a perfect place for an engineer if they really want to grow professionally
I understand what my manager needs from me, and I can also rely on him to help resolve obstacles. Besides, the cross-team collaboration in engineering is excellent.
This fast-paced environment, with deadlines, can also lead to a heavy workload. Everyone has to decide for themselves whether they want that. Internal shares are also very virtual.
More transparent with salary ranges, as well as in leading positions.
The image is worse than it is in reality. It also depends on your team, but for Engineers, it's a very good company.
Career opportunities are now being more transparent for lateral and vertical moves.
Very well paid, only big big US tech companies are
Many very talented people work at bitpanda, especially in the engineering department.
Vienna HQ offers many really good benefits: lunch, a barista, soft drinks all for free, shower possibilities, and a private/ secured bicycle storage room.
Getting better and more transparent, still a lot to improve
Very fast-paced, challenging work, sometimes hard deadlines.
Ich schätz den drive, sich immer zu verbessern.
Der drive immer besser zu werden erzeugt auch Druck. Ob man das möchte, muss jeder für sich selbst entscheiden.
Transparente Gehälter umsetzen
Als Engineer im Vienna office top Atmosphäre
Weiterbildung in der Crypto-Branche ist inkludiert. Andere Weiterbildung wird auch gefördert.
Extrem gute Rahmenbedingungen im Vienna office (Verpflegung, drinks, Arbeitsplatz, events, Kaffee etc. alles kostenfrei)
Nur international findet man bessere Gehälter (e.g. US tech Branche)
Wer sich für Crypto interessiert findet hier sein Zuhause
Teamzusammenhalt, spannendes Arbeitsumfeld
Gehaltsband nicht vorhanden. C-Level
Transparenz heißt nicht, seine Entscheidungen zu verkünden sondern auch die Begründungen dahinter. "Wir finden, das ist der richtige Weg" ist keine Begründung.
wurde durch cost cutting fast vollkommen eingefroren.
viele klagen davon unterbezahlt zu sein. Gehaltsentwicklungen werden gefühlt mit einem Würfel entschieden ob jemand eine bekommt oder nicht.
gibt es keine
Unternehmensweite Entscheidungen werden selten oder gar nicht begründet.
Free food, coffee, office and generals "perks." Those come with a price, though.
Micromanagement, backstabbing,
Two audiences this go out to. Management and HR.
To HR: This company is so proud to be Austrian/European while forgoing any normal HR business practices that comes with that. HR is condescending, and speaks of the company like it's a cult. They want you to beleive the "mission" and be hyped and ready to "own your career" while not actually letting you rise in career. No salary bands, no clear path for careers...the yearly meetings about salary increases get pushed back or when they happen, feel angry and tense. People get laid off or fired and have to beg for information or guidance.
And to management: Start listening to your people and stop the toxic nonsense. Whilst everyone understands the whole startup cultures, this is an example of the blind leading the blind. Young kids and unexperienced people leading departments and projects with 0 experience in that field, only to then laying off the experts for no reasons. Management needs to start being held accountable when things fail, and not the people who deliver, while gaslighting employees, disrespecting them, making them work weekends/nights over such minute tasks....list goes on and on.
Used to be amazing due to great team and colleagues, but after two rounds of layoffs...even colleagues who you were close with start getting tense due to responsibilites and issues dumped on everyone. Turned good teams rotten
Was great at one point, after all the layoff chaos...the entire Austria knows about Bitpanda and knows how bad it is here. It became shameful to say you worked there.
Big laugh here. Bitpanda prides itself in being flexible employer....important to note that flexible is all about the flexibility they need from you. Sure, it'll be fine to go pick up your kids from school...but if you are on holiday it is absolutely normal that people will call you, tag you in things and send you messages. I have been told "we'll need you this weekend" and had to work every day of the weekend for initiatives that were so insignificant. Holiday, evenings, life....not respected in general. If you leave the office a bit earlier, people stare. Flexible for Bitpanda. Never you.
"Own your impact" what does this mean? Nobody manages to get this slogan to life because it is empty gibberish. Because of this, you will be denied any change/career path because of lacking impact
Salary is a joke for the mental gymnastics one has to go through and "flexibility" you have to have. If you have been at company longer, you will stay at the same salary forever...even if you changed resposnibilities and job roles....they don't care and will make you wait until you raisin up before changing.
They seperate trash
Used to be amazing and the only reason many stuck around. Now it's too late, since we all left.
There are none....the place is run by moody teenagers and they fired the "older" people with experience.
They treat you like a number and will do anything to manipulate you. Some are not even that much older than the employees themselves.
Good
Absolutely non-existent. Instransparent. Townhalls you see people start yelling or annoyed at questions/uncertainty. You get gaslit when asking about your career or told vague quotes about impact...but you never communicated WHAT that impact is and how to drive it. Feels like being inside madhouse.
Just the basics.
Once upon a time. I had an interesting job, but was often pushed into menial tasks just for the sake of someone pushing it on me to be important. This the reason I go. I know from other departments that hardworking professionals were forced to do HR work like plan christmas parties, host bigger parties and order cakes for management events!! Adults treated like unpaid interns often.
So verdient kununu Geld.