babelforce 

GmbH

Bewertungen

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Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

It will be a challening work environment for anyone who "just wants a job". Every employee has to deliver and fully engange. Therefore, this isn't a good place for everyone.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Continue with the healthy growth, not oversizing the teams to fast.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

It's fun!

Work-Life-Balance

Remote work has it's challenges but the company gives all needed freedom. It's important for oneselves to keep the balance.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

babelforce is rmote so a bit difficult to say.Trains oare always preferred over planes if possible.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

We all stick together.

Kommunikation

babelforce is constantly looking for the best ways of how to communicate within a remote team with low hirachies and to ensure to take everyone along. It works well most of the times but sometimes this could be improved.

Gehalt/Benefits

For size and position of the company they pay very fairly

Gleichberechtigung

babelforce is an IT company. There were always more male than female employees. This changed over time. The balance is not at 50/50, yet, however, the aim is to have a team that is evened out in all teams if possible.

Interessante Aufgaben

The tasks are divers and challenging.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Well it's an "disadvantage" that comes with the freedom of a small company I guess, but for some specific topics, I just have no guidance or learning possibilities from a senior, because the knowledge is not within the company. On the other hand learning by doing and trying out is not the worst thing and definitely possible there. Also I think, that in general there are some departments who could need some more employees to take out some pressure for the colleagues and help delivering new features faster.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

I don't know, I think they are doing pretty well. I just hope growing plans go as predicted & we can get more resources to move quicker with our projects.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

One of the best work environments I worked in so far. Everyone is respectful, very constructive and just enjoyable to work with.

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I think my colleagues talk positively about our company and I think it's quite representative. At least I do.

Work-Life-Balance

I think this depends a little bit on in which department you work. There are some areas where there is more direct necessity to deliver or secure processes and there are some areas, where you can organize your time more freely. I personally feel I have a good work-life-balance (I do not work in those areas).

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Difficult to say. From within the company, I'd say you just gain a lot of experience because you have to figure a lot of things out on your own and investigate by your own. But I think there are no concrete internal training programs in place. Still, if I search by myself for external training opportunities, they will try to make it possible if it's in the budget (just doing an online-course right now). But it's more on your own initiative.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

In my team, people work together and collaborate where they can to move forward, even if we have sometimes very different responsabilities. Same goes for collaboration with other teams. In general, I think the positiveness and openess of colleagues in this company are one of its biggest strengths.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Very good. Very clear about expectations, always open to suggestions, listening to employees and just very approachable as persons.

Arbeitsbedingungen

This depends a bit on how and where you live, since most of colleagues work remotely. Technology-wise, they do what they can to equip you best at home. If you're in Berlin, they are located in a very nice co-working space.

Kommunikation

Communication works well, with colleagues but also with superiors. As well for general projects and day-to-day work as for individual matters.

Gehalt/Benefits

I would say it is good, but it also depends a little bit on from where you work. If you're located in Germany you can have a contract as an employee and I suppose it is quite good regarding social security etc. If you work remotely, it depends a little bit on the laws of your country regarding freelancers. They try to offer fixed contracts through third-parties but it's not always a clear advantage depending on where you live. What I can say is that they try their best to always be as fair as possible, stick to German standards even for freelancers from other countries where they can (good holiday policy for instance) & make things possible if they can.

Gleichberechtigung

It's a company with a lot of people from very different countries and I think precisely because of that, they are even more careful to create a healthy and respectful work environment. I never experienced or observed any inequalities in regards of gender or origin since I worked there.

Interessante Aufgaben

Since it is a startup in a growing phase, there are always a lot of different and new topics to be covered (but not in a chaotic way, it always makes sense). Also to me the telephony sector is just an interesting sector to work in with a lot of new customers and use-cases to discover (worked always in e-commerce before). It's a complex product but that makes it even more fun to work on. Also in a lot of cases, there is the freedom to choose yourself new topics and investigate, it's not like in a big company where everything is solely decided top-down and you just follow.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

It is a fast moving and rapidly growing startup, so it will not be right for everyone. I would only work here, if you want to get out of your comfort zone and test yourself with achieving something great together with a very talented team.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

The company is growing fast, but growing even faster would be better. Being able to influence that growth is something that we have control over.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

There is a culture of building people up and encouraging people. The team also manages well to foster genuine connection both within teams and across different parts of the business. My experience is that we always have a lot of fun together as well.

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The company is a Gartner Cool Vendor and also in the Top 20 CCaaS Vendors. Within the CX, startup and scaleup world, the company is very well regarded. It is also backed by major investors.

Work-Life-Balance

The company encourages people to take care of themselves. Obviously being a fast growing startup, it is an intense environment. But there is an emphasis on personal growth and good stress management. What is repeated all the time is: "There is no point being successful with outcomes, if you cannot maintain your mental and physical wellbeing."

Karriere/Weiterbildung

I like that employees can progress and even move from one field to another if they see an opportunity for themselves to grow.

Gehalt/Benefits

Salaries compare well with market data. There is also a VESOP program that almost all team members up to now have opted to take part in. Since the company is growing strongly, this gives everyone a chance to participate in the company's success. There are other benefits also, for example, the support to work anywhere. I have used that myself to work for periods in different countries.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

babelforce has a code of conduct and corporate responsibility that is indeed used to make decisions and guide what we do. There is an emphasis across the team that we act as a positive actor in the world.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

My experience is that there is a strong sense of mutual support between team members.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

As is typical for a startup, we have more somewhat younger team members. But we are a B2B enterprise software provider, so many of our core people are over 40 and over 50. So it is well balanced and we have a need for very senior people in our industry.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

There is a culture of supportive management. 360 degree feedback is done anonymously for everyone, including C-level and other managers. So there are opportunities to give constructive and critical feedback in all directions.

Arbeitsbedingungen

There is massive flexibility in arranging when and where we all work. Rather than close management, there is an expectation that each team members takes on responsibility to organize their work in their team. I like a lot that there is a focus on health and well-being. People and Culture organizes events and other opportunities to foster connections with others across the company and to develop personally.

Kommunikation

The company has a 100% transparency policy. So management shares information regularly on overall company performance and has open forums to answer questions. I have never been in a company that was so open in its communication.

Gleichberechtigung

We have way above average number of female team members. In Germany in tech companies, 26% of employees are female. babelforce has over 38% and this includes female management on the exec team. There is also an active recruiting policy to encourage both equality of opportunity and diversity. The company enables teams to test better approaches. For example some teams anonymize applications where possible to remove bias.

Interessante Aufgaben

We are working on complex problems using automation and AI. And we need to explain these new technologies to our customers. So there is nothing but interesting tasks both in engineering and in customer communication parts of the business.