Protect your profit, protect your profit, protect your profit. People and planet?Meh.
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Shiatsu 1 a week was nice, also they are very ok with home officing.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Go back to the roots, get rid of 90% of these VPs or get other ones that are not these corporate people that only care about themselves and their careers. Be grateful to your employees and stop lying to the clients. Hey, I get it.. now the investors are running the show and they will make you follow the corporate manual because they want to see the money back at least. Protect your profit!
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Before the VPfication of the company, it was actually ok. Although the company will non stop talk about their mission, which is more like the title of this review than what they actually claim to be, and how cool and edgy they are, they got sucked into having the worst aspects of corporate culture, specially after getting I don't know how many millions from investors. Within a month that the VP in my department started, everything went bad VERY fast. Immediately there were unfair, unilateral bonus cuts and the general structure changed and all was communicated in a short, rude and condescending way. The only people that knew what they were doing were moved or let go. VP was/is completely clueless about the product, I mean, probably doesn't know how to log in level of cluelessness. The environment became super toxic in general, micro managing got to extreme levels and even sabotage from other colleagues became something normal while everyone was afraid for their job's safety constantly. Meanwhile, the product got worse and worse, bugs everywhere while Sales/BD promised things that don't even exist to the clients, basically creating a vicious cycle. Basically it's a sinking ship.
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I liked Prewave when I joined, now I think it is the worse place I ever worked at.
Work-Life-Balance
This was ok, actually.. although much of your time off work will be spent on thinking if you are the next from the long list of ex-colleagues that will be fired and with what magical powers are you going to solve the issues you have to at work with absolutely no support from anyone, no knowledge base, no clear processes and all the pressure in the world.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
What career? Further education, maybe if you want to become a clown as your next professional step.
Gehalt/Benefits
Industry standard for some, way bellow industry standards for others while VPs make hundreds of thousands for destroying everything.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
The company will pose like a champion of eco-awareness, but that is only a tale to fool clients and investors.
Social aWHATness? Their ''AI'' are third-world workers under constant pressure for results doing menial, repetitive jobs for maybe a third of the wage they'd get in Austria. All my solidarity to those people.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
For the ''mere mortals'' it was fine, nice people in general with some exceptions of course but good for the most part, too much gossip for my taste but everyone is doing their best despite of the horrible conditions and absolute lack of support. Lately though, you'll get thrown under the bus and sacrificed if your colleagues feel that they job is at risk (which is all the time for the past 10 months now).
Once you start going up the ladder you mostly find condescending power trippers that will favor their friends/side kicks and demoralize and set everyone else for failure.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Already spoke about it, older or I would call them, more senior colleagues are for the most part know-it-alls and they don't have time or will for anyone bellow them. They will form little exclusive groups and some will not even ever say hi to you and ask things in a demanding, condescending way and as already mentioned they will sabotage you and undermine you so you look bad and they look good.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
From the very top, delusion, they must live in and see a different reality.
From the VPs and Team Leads, no support, no honesty, condescension, all the pressure on the workers and no way to win. If you do well, you only did your job requirement, if you fail, you are shortlisted to be fired.
We were told to say hi and bye to people, imagine that, either we are all kindergarteners or there was something obviously wrong.
On the other hand, how they systematically let go of people without any reason as if it was like taking the trash out doesn't scream social awareness
Arbeitsbedingungen
I liked my desk and my chair, can't complain about it.. absolutely standard, though.
Kommunikation
From the higher upper management all we got was delusion, everything was wonderful and the future was bright, meanwhile you looked around and though, ''what are they talking about?'' No career plans for anyone, no prospects of new clients and long established clients either constantly extremely unsatisfied or leaving left and right to go with the competitors.
From Team Leads and so on, micro management, deception, set up for failure and even sabotage. Survey results displaying disastrous ratings of morale and satisfaction with the workplace were completely ignored or turned around/cherry picked for months on end. None of the changes in the department made any sense and were not to be questioned or even asked about unless you really wanted to be put on the spotlight and get bad consequences. I've never been so lied to nor have I ever witnessed such double-faced and ungrateful behavior towards employees. Feedback is only a word and is used for nothing positive, only negative towards the employee.
Gleichberechtigung
If you are not Austrian or a German speaker your chances to go up the ladder will be slashed by a lot, while your chances of getting fired first will be increased by A LOT.
If you are someone's pet/side kick/ego massager then you'll have some even if you do absolutely nothing, otherwise you are nothing.
Interessante Aufgaben
Zero, everything is TOP TOP TOP priority because the roof is on fire and the ship is sinking.
Arbeitgeber-Kommentar
We’re truly sorry to hear that this was your experience - it doesn’t reflect the culture or environment we’re striving to build at Prewave. As a fast-paced Series B company, we’re evolving quickly, and we recognise that bringing in new leaders and scaling our structure can sometimes create challenges or friction as we grow. The roof is not on fire - this is the reality of operating in a scale-up and we appreciate the constantly evolving environment is not for everyone.
We would like to emphasise that one of our guiding principles, “Protect people, protect the planet, protect your profits,” truly represents our genuine goals - to create a positive impact both in the world and within our own teams.
That said, all feedback is valuable. It helps us identify where we may have fallen short and where we can improve. We remain deeply committed to learning, growing, and creating a positive, supportive experience for everyone at Prewave.
You’ve raised some serious and concerning topics, and we’d genuinely welcome the opportunity to better understand your perspective. If you feel comfortable, please reach out to our confidential feedback channel at feedback@prewave.ai - your voice truly matters to us.