Don‘t believe the advertising
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Since they‘ve started monitoring when employees are in the office and when they‘re online, it‘s hard to say that the atmosphere is good from the employer side. Other colleagues aren‘t the problem, the dictator-style management is.
Kommunikation
Communication from leadership to the employees is polished and dishonest. They won‘t release the real reasons behind firing so many hard working employees. I suspect this is due to the American leadership team wanting to make sure everyone is giving 130%. If you‘re not burnt out, they want you out.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
This depends on which department you‘re in, but on the whole the other colleagues are pleasant, nice, and do a great job. The higher up you go, the more narcissistic and power hungry the people become. It is essentially like any other toxic corporate company.
Work-Life-Balance
Some years ago this was different, but now they‘ve made a lot of changes that prohibit flexibility. Higher up managers are allowed to reduce hours, step out of work for a few hours to do things, but new employees are expected to work hard and not take breaks more than 10 minutes at a time. It seems those with closer ties to America get less flexibility, so if you happen to get a good manager in Europe, they usually won‘t have a problem. Again, it depends on who is running the team. Europeans wanting to get a pat on the back from America will do almost anything to their fellow employees to throw them under the bus.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Depends on who and which team, which is sad. Some managers care about you developing and succeeding. Some that are concentrated on their own career won‘t care and if you ask for feedback, often nothing is given. Many colleagues have told me that their requests for feedback were not met. No internal programs for development for most teams. They only want people to do the work to keep the machine running.
Interessante Aufgaben
Very monotonous tasks right now and no room for innovation.
Gleichberechtigung
Many employees have faced racism, discrimination from other employees (sometimes unknowingly) based on sexual preference/mental health. Its very much an organisation that focuses on being like the rest. If you have a problem, you are the problem.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
On the whole very pleasant but again, it depends where you are in the world and which team.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
All for appearances, there‘s no sustainable way forward.
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
Very average for Europe. Raises are usually very low per year and the leadership is very reluctant to give out raises just for doing your job. No transparency on what criteria you must meet for raises and promotions. There has been a new framework implemented but its very basic and doesnt give the employee a clear path forward of what skills must be acquired to move up.
Image
Outside image of the company is very good because of marketing efforts. Inside the company, employees are overworked and very frustrated.