Diverse, multicultural, challenging projects, great colleagues
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Family spirit, diverse and supportive colleagues, predominantly fair and competent management, taking care of each other, celebrating together, friendships beyond work....the projects, client team, ever changing, interesting and educative work, great feedback culture, compensation and benefits...there are so many great things
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Unclear, sometimes rapidly changing communication; no promotions from within; no model for home office
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Recognize long-standing employees and managers for their performance. Start promoting from within.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Strong culture of collaboration and support between colleagues. Family atmosphere with low or inexistent hierarchy. Dedicated colleagues who truly support each other. Have enjoyed coming to work every day.
Kommunikation
This is an owner-led company so communication may change rapidly or come in bits and pieces. Leadership takes care and time to explain rationale for decisions and changes as well as providing background about changes in client needs.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Strong spirit of support and collaboration. You enter a diverse and commited group that makes you a part of their "family spirit". Here, friendships grow beyond just the work-place.
Work-Life-Balance
Small company with many diverse projects. So each tem member carries more than just core job responsibilities. Projects are challenging and rapidly changing so you are automatically drawn to learning more and working more.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Managers and executives range from complete, condescending incopetence (one case) to supportive, understanding, empowering, open-door (most cases and my case). It depends whom you are assigned to.
Interessante Aufgaben
Very challenging, interesting and diverse global projects. You learn and grow so much on the job and you have ample opportunities to expand your core responsibilities as you work in different projects and for different client teams.
Gleichberechtigung
When I joined all managers but one were male; leadership has done a lot to improve this. Today we are a diverse team with visible and palpable equality. One exception: this is a family company so ownership opinion always tops anything else.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
For functions that are retained, senior and older colleagues are much appreciated and valued. For functions that are no more, there is fair recognition to older colleagues' tenure but no opportunities to move to different functions due to small size of company.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Beautiful offices in a beautiful location. Nicest place I have ever worked in.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
Strong commitment to philathropy, support of research and economic improvement for disadvantaged groups of people around the globe. The company is set up as a foundation so all profits are transferred to the philathropic arm and NOT into the pockets of shareholders or senior managers. This ifor me was a very worthwhile purpose to work for.
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
Depends on funtion and seniority. Mostly above average.
Image
Some false allegations and constructed stories from the local media have intentionally and repeatedly tried to damage the image. As an expat, I hear similar things about the US and US leadership repeatedly and such fake news are probably due to the predominant, American hating atmosphere in Switzerland.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
There is not much time allocated to training or career advancement. The does not have the critical size to allow people to change functions. Very few internal career ascension paths. Big downside: only external people promoted to leadership team. These externals come and go; they do not know the culture, have no clue about the true decison pathways and think they can operate their standard big-corp attitude which fails at Rising Tide. This creates even fewer career progression and lots of unrest within the long-standing senior employees or managers. Lots to improve here. However: 3 stars as the projects are so diverse and educative that they provide you with entirely new skill sets to progress outside of Rising Tide.