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Bewertungen

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

The ability to learn and test your ideas - competitive salary is important as we spend time, use our skills, and provide our expertise to ensure the best experience for our customers and fellow colleagues!

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Nothing really. It's a scale up, I expected bumps along the road and continue to do so. If I want a settled job that never changes, has no challenges and is boring, I'd join coca-cola...

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Do more for your image, you are actually a great place to work!

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Rarely come across organisation with this many kind and yet driven people.

Image

We are still finding to ourselves when it comes to image. Air up a lot of fun and people with ideas they want to execute will strengthen this image. But a few years down the road, this will be more settled :)

Work-Life-Balance

If you join a scale up, expect longer hours. But you are encouraged to take care of your own schedule and workload should be communicated to your manager, if overwhelming.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Great atmosphere dispite remote first.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Seems fair in all regards.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Managers do their best to attend to their teamies. It's generally on a high level, but cannot judge for anyone in a 200+ people company.

Kommunikation

Generally on a high level, but also depends on the department. Some are not used to the amount of information shared and get overwhelmed with tools like Slack, Asana and others. The typical miscommunications happens. Generally transparency is high and decisions are attempted to be made clear to everyone.

Gehalt/Benefits

For a scale up, a competitive salary!

Gleichberechtigung

People are actively looking into making sure there is fair treatment irregardless of gender or the likes.

Interessante Aufgaben

Yes.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

The work atmosphere is incredibly exciting. It's a dynamic environment where every team member works hand in hand. The professionalism is on a great level, and the behavior among colleagues is highly supportive. Everyone is eager to be part of the success story at air up, which fosters a strong sense of unity and a willingness to help each other quickly find solutions.

Work-Life-Balance

You are super self-responsible how to schedule and organize your day. For sure there are some fixed schedules in your calender. But you have every time the opportunity to create your own best way to work in combination of your private life!
There are always phases where the workload increases, and you need to invest more time. However, everyone is intrinsically motivated, and the extra hours can be compensated with time off later on.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Gehalt/Benefits

In general air up offers good salarys. There are solid benefits. But it would be great if air up can have a look on the benefits in the near future. Like JobRad, Sodexo vouchers, support for child care ...

Kollegenzusammenhalt

We have a great working spirit at air up --> doesn´t matter in which department you work!

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

We generally maintain a very respectful and collaborative way of working with each other.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Super respectful relationship. Feedback cycle every 6 weeks + performance round in October. Personal development is super important. We are not a corporate - so we do not have strict personal development plans for each role --> but this also means that you always have the opportunity to advance to a different position or seniority level more quickly if your performance is strong.

Arbeitsbedingungen

We have an amazing office in MUC - Werksviertel. Here people can collaborate and brainstorm together. Teamies who work with the physical product - they have a great innovation HUB in the Munich office to collaborate with their stakeholders and project teams. Other teamies in more operational roles are also able to make home office. Air up also offers workcation 6 weeks a year in the EU. Quiet flexible. So you can come to the office when you would like to have some more quality time with your teamies. But with the "remote first" approach in some roles you do not have "fomo" because most of all meetings are remotly.

Kommunikation

Monthly all hands call --> Great transperency from the Exec Board what is ongoing in the company. Sometimes it would be good to get updates beside of the all hands call when something special already happend.

Gleichberechtigung

We have a great mix of male, female, and diverse team members, representing over 50 different cultures at air up. This truly highlights that what matters most is the talent and the individual, with the right "air up" mindset!

Interessante Aufgaben

We are still a young professional company --> there are still green fields where you can include your own ideas and improve the processes.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

I love having freedom to choose, having a team that really wants to support each other and is working on trust. The clear focus on delivering customer value and ability to make mistakes and share them openly to learn from it together, has been tremendous and something I have not experienced in any company I worked in during the years before air up.

Being able to work remotely (if not working with or on the product directly, in which case you of course must be physically present) is fantastic and not a given at all in todays world.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

As the company grew, we often have centralized certain areas of expertise and specialized too quickly, while we are still in a phase of the journey where we need people who are willing to try new things, are very talented to solve problem and are more generalist.

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Only three stars, as unfortunately, there are still people out there who do not believe the product of air up actually works with just water creating a scent taste (I promise, it does!), and some (also longer term) employees have parted ways with the company voluntarily or involuntarily in the first month of 2024 for various reasons, which seem to air out their frustration partially on this platform and at times understandably so, but other times show a wrong picture.

Work-Life-Balance

It's left up to you for a large part to balance work and life and most managers advise their teamies and are being advised, to take your personal life serious and air up offers much flexibility for working hours.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Gehalt/Benefits

Actually, for a company that is only just 5 years old, the income is pretty competitive.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

While we are a for-profit organization that is driven both by revenue and cost, there are many initiatives and values that are part of our DNA to consider our environment in everything we do.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

You can work outside of Germany (in the EU) for 6 weeks per year, which is cool. They have very good retirement benefits. The salary is average for Munich but no cost of living increases, 13th month, or holiday pay. There is a good mix of male/female at all levels. The company does a lot to reduce its environmental impact. The office is in a good location and new. They have fun company and team events. The hierarchy is mostly flat. 40% off of products for employees, 20% off for friends and family. When a new product is launched, you get a free one.

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Many of the company founders are upper management with little or no work experience before starting this company. As you would guess, they make a lot of bad decisions.

They've fired 50+ people so far this year without providing any legitimate reasons. When people are fired, there is no handover so you suddenly find yourself doing things you have no idea about. Of course, added responsibilities and work load do not earn you any more money, just more stress.

Someone tried to form a worker's Union and they fired around 10 people the very next day (very suspicious) and then had an All Hands about how unions are bad.

The company seems to be struggling financially and I wouldn't be surpised if they became insolvent before the end of 2024. Many big decisions are "gut feeling" not data-driven and this will be the end of the company

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Your employees are incredibly unhappy and you're doing nothing to fix that

Work-Life-Balance

They do not care about how many hours you have worked and it is not recorded

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Gehalt/Benefits

Salary is bad. No cost of living increases, even if you've worked there for years with good performance reviews

They provide 50 euro for Urban Sports and 50% refund for the Deutschland ticket.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

They put a big focus on sustainability, until profits started to be affected, then they just stopped focusing on sustainability

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

I think there are only 2 colleagues close to their pension, but they seem happy

Kommunikation

Improving, but still not very good

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Home Office, relativ flexible Arbeitszeiten (Abhängig von Bereich und Terminkalender)

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

- Planerische Fehlentscheidungen auf dem Rücken der Belegschaft austragen
- Keinerlei Empathie bei Kündigungen
- Fehlbesetzungen/ Schulungsmangel im
mittleren Management

Verbesserungsvorschläge

- Besinnung auf die eigenen ursprünglichen Unternehmenswerte.
- Wertschätzung der Mitarbeiter
- Realistische Ziele, vor allem um die Notwendigkeit teurer, temporärer Freelancer zu minimieren

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Die Stimmung im Unternehmen hat ihr neues Tief erreicht. Teils langjährige Mitarbeiter werden unerwartet und mit sofortiger Wirkung gekündigt, so dass sie sich nichtmal selbst von ihren Teams und Kollegen verabschieden können. Meist erfährt man nur durch Zufall davon, dass
ein Kollege/Kollegin plötzlich nicht mehr im Unternehmen ist. Übergaben sind so nicht möglich und die Verbleibenden müssen sehen wer nun der neue Ansprechpartner ist.

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Stark schwindend

Work-Life-Balance

Hoher Druck, in vielen Bereichen work overload, teils auch künstlich verursacht durch unrealistische Deadlines, die oft keinerlei Begründung haben, außer dass es die GF eben so will.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

In die Nachhaltigkeit des Produkts wird tatsächlich viel investiert. Ob dies aus Überzeugung oder durch den Druck des Kundens und dem entsprechenden Marketingaspekt passiert, kann ich nicht wirklich sagen. Das Sozialbewusstsein ist wohl eher mangelhaft, wenn Mitarbeiter im Stil a la Elon Musk random gekündigt und sofort alle Unternehmenszugänge gekappt werden. Sehr enttäuschend. Da lernt man, dass man eben doch nur eine Ressource ist.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Grundsätzlich gut, durch den Druck und die Angst vor Kündigung jedoch deutlich abnehmend. Im Zweifel kämpft eben doch jeder für sich selbst.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Sehr viele Manager haben keine Ahnung von moderner Mitarbeiterführung, mangels Erfahrung, Weiterbildungsangeboten aber auch Eignung. Leider fällt sowas immer zu Lasten der Teams

Kommunikation

Wie vorangehend erwähnt mangelt es deutlich in Transparenz und Wertschätzung, während man seitens derGeschäftsführung nicht müde wird die tolle und offene Kommunikation im Unternehmen zu loben. Seitens Belegschaft, wie auch den letzten Bewertungen hier zu entnehmen ist, wird das nicht so empfunden.

Gehalt/Benefits

Fand ich durchaus überzeugend aber der neue Trend ist das Streichen dieser Benefits. Selbst das diesjährige Sommerfest wurde gestrichen. Hier spart man meiner Meinung nach am falschen Ende, da der persönliche Austausch zu einem solchen Anlass für eine remote-First-Company von großem Wert ist.
Auch erlaubt man sich Sonderzahlungen nur an eine definierte Gruppe von Mitarbeitern zu zahlen, was, unabhängig der Fairness, laut Gleichstellungsgesetz noch nicht einmal rechtens ist. Hier macht man sich wohl die Unwissenheit der meist jungen oder auch ausländischen Mitarbeiter zu nutzen.

Gleichberechtigung

Oberflächlich ja, sieht man genauer hin ist das doch leider nicht immer der Fall.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Working from home and USC. Some colleagues.

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Being nice at the beginning, being super fake with smiles and seeming friendly. Putting someone in a role and not even being able to take the best out of them and having no idea what to do with them.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Don't hire randomly talented people without a proper strategy on what to do with them to just fire them later. Take some leadership courses.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Gratitude not shown from the work or initiatives you have. Fear of being laid off any second randomly even if you are a great performer. No direction or clear expectations and a lot of incompetence and randomness in the strategy.

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On the outside it all looks great. On the inside not reflecting it.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Gehalt/Benefits

You start with a great salary, over the time, even with the inflation, no raise happens and they put it down as something hard to get, compared to other companies that do much better.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Some people are great to work with, they have a lot of competence, talent and genuine enthusiasm to work on some projects.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Some leaders do their best and seem to be put on a difficult position where they can't help themselves much due to the upper management. In general, there should be more training on leading and watch out carefully that they have certain skills in order to provide professional and relevant feedback to their employees.
The worst part is that you can't provide performance feedback to your managers, how is this even possible? You get it from them but can't give it back, it doesn't make sense.

Kommunikation

Not a lot of honesty, people hiding or avoiding certain topics and the next day you are just laid off.

Interessante Aufgaben

Depends on the team you work for.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Remote work, great colleagues

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Not acting according their own values anymore. On your career page you say,
that your employees are your most precious capital. It really does not feel like that anymore.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Appreciate your employees and be respectful, even if you have to lay off people. Look more inside to find talents, instead of hiring your management buddies. Make sure team leads are trained as such. Stop spending money like a big player, and then go nuts after a view underperforming months. We are still a scale up.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

The spirit within the company changed drastically in the last two years. They tried to be hip and fancy, but this did not hold for long. Now, benefits get killed again and plenty of people get layed off. It does not feel like an appreciative and safe place to work anymore.

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Shiny on the outside, but it stops there…

Work-Life-Balance

The pressure is extremely high, and although each and everyone is going above and beyond to meet the expectations, it is never rewarded. In every all hands meeting, we are just told, that it is only on us, to improve the current performance. It is never talked about the poor management decisions, that also brought us into this situation in the first place. Shit happens and you learn from your mistakes, but the blame game, especially from the C-level, is big and very demotivating.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Gehalt/Benefits

They just introduced carrier lathers with salary ranges per function. They also support a pension plan and sport clubs etc. Let‘s see if there will be any cuts on this too.
We did not get any inflation support payments, like many other companies did, based on the tax free payments the government offered.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

There are amazing people working for air up and it is always very collaborative to work with peers. I never worked in a company before, were the intrinsic motivation and passion of employees was so high.
Unfortunately, this great work spirit is heavily impacted by the awful decisions and actions from the middle, but especially upper management.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Generally a very young team, amongst all departments, but I never experienced any difference in how older colleagues are treated

Vorgesetztenverhalten

This depends a lot on the team. There are great leaders, such that try their best but just miss some experience and others, that are just not leaders at all. They should train their managers and define some standards and guidelines. Generally speaking, micromanagement is big at air up, and got way worse in the last two years.

Kommunikation

There is a lot of communication going on, and management was always praising them self for their great transparency. This might have been the case as long as everything was good. As numbers are not as good as expected, they are quick to cut their open communication amongst all teamies. Especially the way how they communicate, misses the respect for the people working for air up and giving their all since many years. People just get a random call, where they are told that they are released, and they are logged off all company systems right after. You don’t even have the chance to say bye to your colleagues.

Interessante Aufgaben

In theory, there a many very interesting and challenging positions at air up. With the level of micromanagement we face from managers, there unfortunately is not much left. But of course you are still responsible in case of a *uck up, although your manager took all the decisions for you

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

In my opinion air up is an extraordinary company with a great purpose and amazing people. The diversity of the team (40 different nationalities), the flexibility, the innovative product and the drive of the air uppies makes it a great place to work. There were for sure some management decisions that I didn't like or understand, but in general I'm fully convinced that the founders are always aiming for the best solution for the company AND its employees.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

I understand that hiring external people with more experience often seems like the easier way to take expertise into the company, but I feel like this lead to a lot of resentment among employees. I would recommend air up to set a higher focus on supporting the development of the employees they have and who live up to air up's values.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

The people working at air up are great! It's a diverse bunch of open-minded, smart and fun people. In my experience hierarchies were low and I could communicate with every stakeholder on eye-level. The management communicates in an easy and approachable way, but they also tend to focus on the things that could be done better rather than celebrating and appreciating the achievements.

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As far as I can assess it, the brand and it's product are perceived very differently among different social group. E.g. younger people find the brand and product very cool, why older people often don't see the value of the product. In my opinion (and I know that other ex-employees see that differently), air up is doing a lot to act according to its values and the people who work there are mostly people who can identify with these values.

Work-Life-Balance

There might be times with a higher workload, but as you can work remotely and more or less flexible, it's mostly up to you and your own self-management if you can set your personal limits. What needs to be said is, that in general air up is a very ambitious company searching for ambitious employees. If you are not willing to make some extra hours from time to time or to take a task outside of your responsibility, you might not be the right person for the company.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Gehalt/Benefits

I initially started with a rather low salary, when the company was still in its start-up phase, but later it could keep up with similar roles in other companies. The benefits (30 days of vacation, great pension scheme program, urban sports club support, home-office-bonus etc.) was a great plus.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

air up is a purpose-driven company. In addition to the per se sustainable product, the company aims to reduce it's own impact on the environment by near-shoring the production, supporting charity initiatives or taking care of the well-being of their employees.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

I had a great team with a great team spirit. But of course this can differ from team to team.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

It's a pretty young company, but I don't think older employees would have any disadvantages.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Depends on the manager. I got along with all my managers very well and had the feeling that I could always be open and honest.

Arbeitsbedingungen

I had everything I needed incl. access to a great office in the heart of Munich, all tools and software that a modern company nowadays uses and a home-office bonus to purchase everything I needed for a nice work set-up at home.

Kommunikation

The management always tried to be as transparent as they could. Still, the information sometimes didn't reach everyone - either because information streams broke or because there was an overload with information at some points.

Gleichberechtigung

I would have wished for more women in the C-Level, but in the management layer there is an almost even split between male and female. In general, I have the feeling that everyone wants to support gender diversity in all levels.

Interessante Aufgaben

I'v been with air up for several years and my responsibilities and roles changed continously, which made it super interesting for me.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Es werden häufig Events im Office organisiert. Man ist sehr flexibel in der Arbeitsweise und es herrscht insgesamt ein sehr positiver Vibe im Unternehmen.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Ein transparentes, ehrliches Betriebsklima. Wertschätzung wird groß geschrieben.

Work-Life-Balance

Durch das schnelle Wachstum des Unternehmens, gibt es immer mehr zu tun, als wie Kapazität besteht. Dennoch 4 Sterne, da keine Kernarbeitszeit besteht und man sich seine Zeit sehr gut einteilen kann, so das trotzdem noch Zeit für andere Dinge bleibt.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Gehalt/Benefits

Es wird viel von jedem Einzelnen erwartet, aber es wird einem auch viel geboten. Es wird viel Wert auf eine faire, wettbewerbsfähige Entlohnung gelegt. Auch wird mehr Wert darauf gelegt, bestehende Mitarbeiter zu befördern, als neue (günstigere) Leute einzustellen.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Es wird sehr viel Wert auf Nachhaltigkeit gelegt. Auch wenn manche Produkte noch nicht die gewünschte Nachhaltigkeit hat, hieran wird ständig gearbeitet und das Unternehmen lässt sich häufig neue Ideen einfallen, wie noch bewusster, nachhaltiger und effizienter produziert und gearbeitet werden kann.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Dank der offenen Kommunikationskultur, weiß man wirklich gut woran man ist. Insgesamt herrscht ein sehr positives Miteinander und man hat den Eindruck jeder "zieht am gleichen Strang".

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Es gibt kaum ältere Kollegen, aber die, die es gibt, sind junggeblieben und gut integriert.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Auch wenn das Team insgesamt sehr jung ist, widmen sich die Geschäftsführer und die übrigen Vorgesetzten ihrer Aufgabe mit der höchsten Professionalität und Hingabe. Einige Vorgesetzte verkörpern eine top "Mentor" -Funktion. Man merkt, dass jeder an das Produkt und den Erfolg des Unternehmens glaubt und darauf hinarbeitet. Dennoch sind alle sehr zugänglich, offen und haben das nötige Quäntchen an Humor.

Arbeitsbedingungen

Top Ausstattung, neues Büro direkt am Ostbahnhof.

Kommunikation

Bei air up wird das Konzept von Radical Candor gelebt. Regelmäßige Feedbackgespräche, offene Feedback und Fehlerkultur. Es wird sehr transparent über die Zahlen im Unternehmen gesprochen. Regelmäßige Check-ins und 1:1 Gespräche im Team und mit den Stakeholdern.

Gleichberechtigung

Ein Unternehmen, das sehr viel Wert auf equal pay legt. Insgesamt ist das Mnner-Frauen Verhältnis sehr gut ausgeglichen (fast genau 50/50). Hierauf wird ebenfalls Wert gelegt.

Interessante Aufgaben

Keiner Tag ist wie ein anderer. Herausforderungen gehen nie aus und langweilig wird es einem bei air up wohl nicht!

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Colleagues

Verbesserungsvorschläge

HR department: please stop writing 5-star evaluations on this platform to increase the score.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Often toxic, workload and stress level are extremely high. Positive is the relationship within the team(s).

Image

Marketing did a good job: very good brand reputation.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Gehalt/Benefits

Below average, experience doesn't count.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Top from a communication perspective. In daily business not really relevant. The company is still producing a lot of plastic waste.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

There are only a few "older" colleagues...

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Not interested in individuals or skills, only in performance and output.

Arbeitsbedingungen

Noisy, no office or available space in the office.

Kommunikation

Transparent communication means that you will not get all the information, only what management has decided to provide to the teams.

Gleichberechtigung

I had the impression that women are not treated the same as male colleagues.