HR is unprofessional, unqualified and exists only to protect management – they will sabotage you without hesitation
Work-Life-Balance
I used to believe the positive reviews about Waterdrop. The product is nice, the office looks good and some colleagues are genuinely friendly. That is where the positives end once you have any real interaction with HR.
HR is unprofessional, clearly underqualified and openly arrogant. They do not work for the employees – they work exclusively for the CEO. Their only job is to protect management and clean up whatever mess the leadership creates. If something goes wrong or if a manager wants someone gone, HR will happily stab you in the back. They collect information, twist situations, and then “handle” you in a way that leaves you with no real chance to defend yourself. There is zero neutrality, zero transparency and zero genuine support.
There is no Betriebsrat (works council) in the Vienna office. Management does not want one and actively prevents it. As a result, employees have absolutely zero independent support on any labour-law or employment-related issues. On the contrary – this absence is actively exploited by superiors. Without a works council, managers can push boundaries, increase pressure and squeeze people far more easily, knowing there is no institutional p