Official Values vs. Reality
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Over the past few years, the Product and Engineering teams have gone through several reorganizations and leadership changes. In some cases, a new reorganization started before the previous one was finished.
Some new leaders showed little interest in understanding the existing products or learning from the teams’ experience. This created ongoing uncertainty. Employees often felt treated more like cost factors than people who could contribute valuable knowledge if there was interest in doing so.
After the most recent leadership change, several employees were let go in a way that felt impersonal and lacking empathy. Since then, many employees work with the constant fear that they might be next.
Work-Life-Balance
In general, the work-life balance is okay. However, it is not always modeled well by leadership. Emails and messages are often sent outside of regular working hours and on weekends.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
There are very few long-term or older employees in the company. Experience gained over many years is not seen as a strength and is sometimes viewed as a problem rather than a benefit.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Since the last reorganization, working with managers has become more difficult. Personal conversations are rare, and most communication happens in writing. Leadership follows a strong top-down approach, with little real collaboration.
There is a lack of open communication, appreciation, transparency, accountability, empathy, and clear strategic direction. This further strengthens the feeling that employees are managed mainly as costs instead of being valued for their knowledge and experience.
Gleichberechtigung
Equality is officially communicated as an important topic. Unfortunately, it is not consistently reflected in everyday work.