Not great, not terrible
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Depending on the project, it's not that bad overall, but not really positive either.
- Codebase is great on most projects
- Most peers are nice and fun
- German courses at a certain school can be paid by the company (but the new rules make it harder to apply for it)
- If you are lucky, there are some cool projects to work on
- Still a lot of international folks in the dev department
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
- Using the crisis as an excuse, it feels like the company tries to save money on everything they can: no more money for team events, downgrade from Slack to Google Chat, no licenses for the software you actually need in your work. It all comes down as an understanding that things are getting worse
- Random single-day firing of people, so I always had a feeling I could be next
- Return to office policy did no good in my opinion: most of the meetings are online anyway, as we're working from different cities, managers aren't there a lot of time anyway, and lunches are not paid or even subsidised by the company, so it's just a waste of time and money for the employees
- Noticeable border between non-German developers and everybody else
Verbesserungsvorschläge
If you want to save money on something, save it by making the office smaller and returning to work from home policy
Arbeitsatmosphäre
It got much worse during the last years
Kommunikation
The communication between peers is usually very good, but gets worse the higher you go
Work-Life-Balance
Introduction of office days made it much worse
Interessante Aufgaben
Heavily depends on the project, but I'm lucky to have them
Gleichberechtigung
Almost no women, non-whites or LGBTQ-people in managing roles
Arbeitsbedingungen
If you like working from the office, it'll be good, but it can also be noisy during the office days
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
Not much apart from sorting garbage
Gehalt/Benefits
Salary will be good only if you managed to negotiate it from the beginning. Almost no bonuses apart from the sport subscription and a bike lease