Great company with potential - unbearable leadership team
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Yes but would they listen?
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Business development is recognized well, everything else does not matter it seems. While it is always hard to judge on what is fair, trust is evidently more a word on the kitchen wall than something you experience.
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The ice is melting - discordant tones get louder especially towards the leadership team their questionable decisions on the on side and the lethargy on other topics .
Work-Life-Balance
You have great freedom in how you plan and organize your work. As long as the customer is satisfied and your results meet expectations, you enjoy a high level of autonomy. There’s also a system that supports working from countries other than your location.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Every employee has a educational budget that can be used what is great. To have a career and or even be recognized you need be easy wo work with, march along, applaud the leadership team, stop asking too many tough - but neccessary -questions and do business development. If you deviate from that you will get you crucified if not even prone for the next lay off.
Gehalt/Benefits
Base salary plus benefits is comparable to the competition but (obviously) not with customers.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
We switched from PET to glass bottles for free drinks!
Kollegenzusammenhalt
The team is great, and there's strong cohesion among colleagues. Support requests are seldom turned down. Collaboration between organizational units could be improved.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
As far as I can tell they are well accepted and their experience is appreciated
Vorgesetztenverhalten
There is (no) honor among thieves! Power games, intrigues and hidden agendas are obvious. There is almost no accountability taken in the Leadership Team. Decisions drag on forever without obvious reasons. The consequences to missteps on that level are blamed onto the workforce up to laying people off while the responsible leaders get new roles or promotions. There is no admitting of failures. Failed changes are accepted and later reversed, with leaders celebrating it as a breakthrough applauding each other. The go to solution is to create a committee for a topic mainly consisting out of Leadership Team members or people that march along nicely what slows everything down with debatable impact. In case a Leadership Team member starts marching to a different beat the group will make sure that the person marches somewhere else. Some of the newly appointed line managers lack basic leadership skills, which is acknowledged as not being a current priority to be worked on.
Arbeitsbedingungen
The new Allschwil office is excellent. However, internal systems are outdated and hard to use, with many Excel files and SharePoint sites that employees must constantly maintain.
Kommunikation
Many internal meetings share information without providing clarity on reasons, next steps, or outcomes. Leadership emails often have 20% relevant content and 80% filler, missing key details on the why and how. Internal systems are difficult to use and lack the clarity needed across different levels. Depending on who you talk to you get different answers that range from aligned to contradictory what does not help building trust.
Gleichberechtigung
Overall, there appears to be a good gender balance up to middle management. Above that level, leadership is mostly male, though Arcondis recently added a female board member.
Interessante Aufgaben
It depends on the project. Most are interesting, but when one ends, the available options might be less appealing or outside your expertise. Declining a project is generally not well received.