Air 

Up 

Gmbh

Reviews

What I like about the employer

the product has real potential - most junior employees are very motivated.

What I dislike about the employer

Suggestions for improvement

Introduce real accountability at leadership level instead of repeatedly pushing the consequences of failed strategic decisions onto employees lower in the organisation.

Create real transparent processes for promotions, compensation, and performance evaluation so that career progression is based on contribution rather than proximity to senior leadership.

Improve transparency around employee rights, internal processes, and organisational changes. Open communication builds trust; withholding information destroys it.

Take reports of bullying, toxic behaviour, and management issues seriously regardless of a person’s position or relationships within the company.

Finally, align internal culture with the values and messaging presented externally. Employees notice when there is a gap between public branding and day-to-day reality.

Instead of reporting every negative review on this platform to have it taken down, try to own it, make yourselves accountable and do something with the feedback.

What I like about the employer

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!

What I dislike about the employer

Suggestions for improvement

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

Working atmosphere

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.

Career/Professional development

In your own hands. Air up encourages learning!

Collegiality

Great atmosphere dispite remote first.

Interaction with older colleagues

Seems fair in all regards.

Leadership behavior

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.

Communication

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.

Salary/Benefits

For a scale up, a competitive salary!

Equality

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

Interesting tasks

Yes.

What I like about the employer

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.

What I dislike about the employer

Suggestions for improvement

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

Career/Professional development

There is no career progression. The only team that gets promoted is the Strategy team

Salary/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.

Environmental and social responsibility

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

Interaction with older colleagues

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

Communication

Improving, but still not very good

What I like about the employer

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

What I dislike about the employer

Suggestions for improvement

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

Working atmosphere

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.

Image

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.

Environmental and social responsibility

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.

Career/Professional development

Es werden lieber externe Mitarbeiter eingestellt, statt interne zu entwickeln. Gerne aus dem persönlichen Netzwerk der Führungsebene und nicht selten auch auf Kosten bestehender Mitarbeiter. Insbesondere beim Aufbau des Tech departments gab es hier m. E. einige sehr fragwürdige Entscheidungen

Collegiality

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

Leadership behavior

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

Communication

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.

Salary/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.

Equality

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

What I like about the employer

Working from home and USC. Some colleagues.

What I dislike about the employer

Suggestions for improvement

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.

Working atmosphere

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.

Image

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

Career/Professional development

The most terrible thing about the company. There is no professional and relevant feedback provided, it seems like some performance rounds have to be given just for the sake of giving it without serving a purpose. You can be lead by people who don't have the proper skills to give you a complete performance review. You work as hard as you can, doing more than it's requested, just to be told later that this was actually what was expected and you don't get any raise or promotion. You get fooled by believing by continuing working hard and more you will achieve something but in the end you just get laid off.

Salary/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.

Collegiality

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

Leadership behavior

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.

Communication

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

Interesting tasks

Depends on the team you work for.

What I like about the employer

Remote work, great colleagues

What I dislike about the employer

Suggestions for improvement

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.

Working atmosphere

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.

Image

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.

Career/Professional development

They rather higher someone new from there awesome „network“ instead of supporting and developing people that are already doing this job for years. We have a yearly training budget, which just was put on hold.

Salary/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.

Collegiality

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.

Interaction with older colleagues

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

Leadership behavior

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.

Communication

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.

Interesting tasks

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

What I like about the employer

Einige Teams sind besser als andere, es hängt vom Erfahrungsniveau des Managers ab. Es gibt viele gutmütige Menschen in der Firma.

What I dislike about the employer

Working atmosphere

Sie führen durch Angst.

Work-Life Balance

Es wird viel über Work-Life-Balance geredet, aber am Ende kümmert sich dein Manager nie wirklich um dich.

Collegiality

Es arbeiten großartige Leute dort, aber sie werden zu stark kontrolliert und man vertraut ihnen nicht, Entscheidungen in ihrem Fachbereich zu treffen.

Leadership behavior

Selbst erfahrene Manager haben keine Ahnung, wie man Menschen führt, und du musst dich an ihre Pläne halten. Wenn du anderer Meinung bist, fliegst du raus mit seltsamen und unsinnigen Begründungen.

Communication

Undurchsichtige Kommunikation - totaler Buzzkill!

Equality

Fairness liegt nicht wirklich in den Fähigkeiten des Unternehmens.

Interesting tasks

Oftmals landest du bei Aufgaben, von denen du weißt, dass sie null bis gar keine Auswirkungen haben, weil sie von deinem Vorgesetzten entschieden werden.

What I like about the employer

The office location, the benefits, the people.

What I dislike about the employer

Working atmosphere

Open, welcoming and inclusive atmosphere.

Collegiality

X-functional support happens daily!

Communication

Regular meetings where SOB is communicated openly and transparently.

What I like about the employer

Good colleagues, good office location

What I dislike about the employer

What I dislike about the employer

Suggestions for improvement

Stop being fake. You won’t succeed. You will burn your employer brand. Offer contracts with a 3 months notice period like every serious company does and increase salaries accordingly. Without increase the salaries you are robbing your employees by forcing them to work for less money although you increase sales and prices. You make profit by abusing your employees loyalty. I hope that Labour council will be founded soon and employees will team up to end this mistreatment

Working atmosphere

People get fired randomly after a one month notice, whenever they are not needed anymore. The company is abusing the bad legal knowledge of foreigners

Image

Media also figured out that the product is something the world doesn’t need. They sell a lifestyle and will fail. Nobody will buy this product when money gets tight.

Work-Life Balance

Depends on your position

Career/Professional development

Random promotions, trainings budget too low and is not really used

Salary/Benefits

Inflation = 10%, salary increase = 0%. Even when you start with a great salary, it won’t be competitive anymore after 2 years.

Environmental and social responsibility

Green washing for both. Nobody cares about people or environment

Collegiality

Lots of jealousy as promotions and raises are given in a intransparente way. Everybody successfully hides it’s own incapability as the senior management is too unskilled for a company of this skill. They all had a great idea but all of them are no leaders.

Interaction with older colleagues

Don’t know any, this also says something

Leadership behavior

Depends strongly on the department. Company culture may exist on paper but every team is led individually but not following any guidelines

Working conditions

Home office

Communication

Company communicates a lot bit nothing valuable

Equality

Actually…. Everybody is being treated equally bad

Interesting tasks

Depending on the department