Babbel 

GmbH

Bewertungen

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Den Zeitraum bis Herbst 2023.

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Nicht mehr in das durchaus gute Produkt zu investieren. Es ist erschreckend, wie ahnungslos einige Führungskräfte sind.

Derzeit wird alles Mitarbeiter freundliche gestrichen. Remote Arbeit nur noch maximal drei Tage die Woche, keine Sommerfeste, keine Winter/Weihnachtsfeste. Es gab Massenentlassung und eine Top Downmentalität die sehr toxisch ist.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Übernimmt nicht alles aus den USA. Werft euren guten Mitarbeitern nicht noch Knüppel zwischen die Beine.
Hört auf die Mitarbeiter, die im Kundenkontakt sind.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Untereinander im eigenen Team ist es unfassbar angenehm. Die Führungskräfte sind jedoch eine einzige Katastrophe und völlig überfordert.

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War mal deutlich besser.

Work-Life-Balance

Aus 100 % Remote. Was so abgesprochen war, wird nun hybrides arbeiten mit zweimal die Woche im Büro.
Angeblich, weil sich dies von so vielen Mitarbeitern gewünscht wurde, doch dies ist eine Lüge. Man folgt nur den großen Tag Unternehmen und versucht alles schlechter aus den USA zu kopieren.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Seit circa anderthalb Jahren nicht mehr vorhanden

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Von der besten Vorgesetzten, die man jemals hatte, blieb nach Entlassungen nichts mehr übrig. Die neue Führungskraft (die diesen Job offensichtlich noch nie vorher ausgeübt hat) ist komplett überfordert widerspricht sich in jedem zweiten Satz und obwohl ich kein abgeschlossene Psychologie Studium habe, wirkt es so, als hätte er diese Person borderline

Kommunikation

Für ein Unternehmen, das mit Sprachenlernen zu tun hat, sollte die Kommunikation eigentlich gut sein. Das Gegenteil ist leider der Fall.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

The only good thing were my colleagues.

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

If you’re looking for a workplace that truly values and supports its employees, you might want to think twice.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Show genuine appreciation for employees, not just empty words. Treat them with respect, not like school children.
Improve communication and make decisions more transparent.
Provide real career growth opportunities.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

No appreciation coming towards the employees. You need to do as you are being told otherwise they will come after you.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Vorgesetztenverhalten

More and more top-down approach. Chaotic. Woco unfortunately cannot help.

Kommunikation

Intransparent, partially non-existent and misleading information

Gehalt/Benefits

It's much lower compared to other Berlin tech companies.

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Die Arbeitsweise ist sowohl gut als auch schlecht zugleich: Der Arbeitgeber gibt den Angestellten viel Freiheit bezüglich der Arbeitszeiten und -orte, was durchaus praktisch sein kann. Ich glaube jedoch, dass viele dadurch ihren Job nicht richtig erledigen.

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Das höhere Management scheint keine Verantwortung für die misslungene Verwaltung zu übernehmen. Es gibt auch keinen klaren Plan für die Entwicklung der App – stattdessen werden Wettbewerber-Apps kopiert, anstatt auf empirische Daten und Nutzerfeedback zu basieren.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Wie im Titel: Die weitgehende Amerikanisierung des Unternehmens bringt es nicht weiter. Es wird zu wenig Wert auf das Geleistete/Erschaffene gelegt, sondern auf das, was man sieht. Wenn jemand also so tut, als ob sie ständig beschäftigt wären, wird diese Person eher befördert als jemand, der weniger sozial aktiv ist, aber tatsächlich konzentriert seine Aufgaben erfüllt.
Das Unternehmen wurde einige Zeit lang falsch verwaltet und scheint deshalb in finanzielle Probleme geraten zu sein. Ich hoffe, dass in Zukunft mehr darauf geachtet wird, Effizienz zu prüfen und zu belohnen, anstatt viel Geld für unfähiges Management zu bezahlen.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

eher entspannt

Work-Life-Balance

Home Office, Jobbatical und Sabbatical möglich

Karriere/Weiterbildung

wird reichlich angeboten, wenn man Interesse daran hat

Gehalt/Benefits

man verdient leicht unter dem Marktdurchnitt; es gibt keine weiteren Zusatzleistungen wie betriebliche Altersvorsorge etc.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Vorgesetztenverhalten

in meinem Team - sehr gut! aber man weißt ja, das Team Leads unterschiedlich sind

Arbeitsbedingungen

ordentlich ausgestattenes Büro, aber nichts besonderes

Kommunikation

lässt zu wünschen übrig

Interessante Aufgaben

variieren stark nach den Aufgaben in den jeweiligen Teams

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

On a positive note, some people in the company are very interested in making Babbel a better employer. At Babbel, at least at the moment, you have a relaxed job and a lot of freedom.

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What's currently nice and easy going will change in the future because the company is unfortunately going downhill, not least because of the lack of technical innovations, bad leadership and skilled people leaving the company.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Increasingly American, a lot of blah but without much behind it. Unfortunately, there is also increasingly more toxic positivity and empty promises, but still a really good employer, compared to other companies, where everyone can feel comfortable and safe, even if they are not cis-white.

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It's okay. Some people will talk positively, some negatively, depending on their position and experience.

Work-Life-Balance

Perfect, you can have a 20h week while having a full time contract ;)

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Expect to not have a career. The company is cutting costs.

Gehalt/Benefits

The salary isn't competitive at all. It's okay to have a lower salary when the company provides lot's of potential to grow within, learn and have a chill life, but it's not the case (anymore).

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

It's okay, but still better than other companies.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Great, nothing to add here.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Leadership is not really qualified. There are a few who have a lot on their plate, the rest just talk. More and more decisions are being made that have a strategically negative impact on the company and the culture.

Arbeitsbedingungen

Great, nothing to add here. You can work from everywhere in Germany, or up to 3 month remotely in the EU.

Kommunikation

As in many companies, communication here is unfortunately weak, very American (there is a lot of beating around the bush) and few clear statements. Plus, everything is constantly changing.

Gleichberechtigung

Honestly a great employer when it comes to equality.

Interessante Aufgaben

Don't expect to work on interesting topics. Innovation is completely missing in many areas, strategies are outdated and new ideas are rejected by leadership because they are often not even understood.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Please, take the Work Council and People&Organisation complaints seriously. Also Peakon comments.
In product leadership, especially in Growth and B2B, the culture of leadership is toxic and excluding. There have been multiple complaints, but instead of reacting, C-Suite is not taking action and let the good experts leave the company.
Please, react and speak up for your values.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Almost not present.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Flexible working hours, helpful colleagues, the product.

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The product has to be improved faster

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Enhance the upper management communication and most importantly be honest about the strategy and the decisions

Work-Life-Balance

Flexible working hours, no micro management

Karriere/Weiterbildung

One has to wait a lot to get a promotion

Gehalt/Benefits

Below German average

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

It's a vegetarian company.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Arbeitsbedingungen

Not enough room in the office for everyone, it can get very crowded and impossible to work. So one has to do homeoffice often. Office managers do good job and take care of everything.

Kommunikation

Communication in the direct team is great. The general communication, when it comes to important company-wide decisions, is very bad.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Free Babbel Live, parties, Blinkist.

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I have observed people getting fired out of process with no performance review, just an OK from the C-Suite. Management changes its mind very often about organizational design and required skills, according to my observations. Positions are published without what I consider enough thought about a time horizon beyond the present, even when immigration, families, leaving good jobs, etc. are involved. "There's always a probation period" was something I heard very often.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Hire executives who have experience and maturity not to change their minds every few months and fire the poor souls theiy lured into Babbel.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Distrustful and chaotic with an superficial layer of fake-enlightenment.

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Way to good because of the diversity and inclusion PR.

Work-Life-Balance

"Everybody works on the weekend, but nobody talks about it," is a quote.

Gehalt/Benefits

Individual contributors often complain about salaries being below standard.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

No meat allowed at company events. Everybody uses the same toilette. Yet they still manage to be sexist, ethnocentric and unsensitive to non-Christians, in my experience.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Vorgesetztenverhalten

The C-Suite has approved firings within the probation period without formal HR review processes. I was told that being bullied is a "gift" when I talked about behavior I considered unethical. Additionally, I had to ask 3 times for my written references before I got them.

Arbeitsbedingungen

The IT department is very good.

Kommunikation

Chaotic. Lack of organizational alignment.

Gleichberechtigung

Management in the presence of HR gave me feedback about my family relationships. HR did not interrupt or stop, even when I signaled the feedback was inappropriate. Non-Christian holidays were not respected, despite being in a company calendar. Comments about too much of a certain ethnic group being in a department were made to me. Diversity and inclusion at Babbel is below the German / Western European standard, in my experience. It is very sad to see PR around inclusion and diversity when Babbel acts the way I have seen them act. Heart breaking. Hurtful to the individuals hurt by their carelessness, sexism and ethnocentrism, in my view.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

- Open communication around strategy: if you want to be capitalistic - just say so and the company is to 100% revenue driven, while building up a caring brand will not be needed anymore, however do not try to keep up the facade that you want to be both
- Communicate more honestly and openly with employees (about dismissals and other changes within the company, problems, salaries, criteria for promotion etc)
- Listen to the employees, introduce bottom-up feedback
- Give people more options for development and empower them to learn instead of patronising and making them frustrated - believe in people
- Don't LIE + OVERPROMISE - dont say there wont be another round of dismissals if one year later there is one, it is just called "restructuring" and used to let people go

Arbeitsatmosphäre

- C-Level is working completely ego driven creating a highly toxic and distructive atmosphere of constant power battles only wanting to push own agendas
- Some C-Level with highly narcissistic tendencies promoting "yes-sayers" and pushing those employees out of the company who raise their voices and give open feedback

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Babbel used to be one of the best employees in Berlin but that was a long time ago. I would not recommend working there.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

- Company values are empty - the company and management could care less about employees and their well-being
- No dedication to employee development

Karriere/Weiterbildung

less about employees and their well-being
- No dedication to employee development

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Vorgesetztenverhalten

- C-Level is working completely ego driven creating a highly toxic and distructive atmosphere of constant power battles only wanting to push own agendas
- Some C-Level with highly narcissistic tendencies promoting "yes-sayers" and pushing those employees out of the company who raise their voices and give open feedback
- Little confidence in employees' skills and patronising treatment, many people with high qualifications are put down because they might be too good and a thread to the manager?

Kommunikation

- Open feedback not wanted
- Management lacks leadership skills and people skills, they communicate with empty corporate language when talking about problems which only creates more distrust

Gehalt/Benefits

- huge gender pay gap of around 20-25% in marketing - not acceptable!

Gleichberechtigung

- huge gender pay gap of around 20-25% in marketing - not acceptable!