Legal Insurance is a must before joining. Very short tenure and frequent turnover these days. No work council.
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Many company events. Global work experience , since many of their branches are abroad. 28 Days of vacation to start with.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Found a Works Council (Betriebsrat).
Please revisit the exit strategy which exposes vulnerability. Bypassing German labor law and legal processes exposes the company to massive legal and financial risks when employees fight back.
Use your acquired investment to retain and retrain talent rather than wasting it on legal costs and severance for unnecessary turnovers.
Restore the once-collaborative culture in PED. Employees are not commodities. Especially, regain the trust and foster transparency in the organization.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
The atmosphere is dominated by a "fear of dismissal" culture. High turnover and the frequent use of "Mutual Terminations" as a euphemism for pushed exits have destroyed psychological safety. Most employees are currently job hunting to escape the volatility.
Image
They invest a lot into PR and external images.
Work-Life-Balance
Long, unpaid hours are usual even if not enforced under fear of swift dismissal. New hires tend to be non-Western European backgrounds who are more willingly sacrificed to working well over 40 hours without compensation.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
The company offers a "survival of the fittest" version of career progression. While fast promotions are possible for a favored few, they are frequently tied to volatile reorganizations that conveniently remove several colleagues at the same level.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
While colleagues are talented and friendly, the performance evaluation system destroys collaboration by prioritizing individual output over team's success. It is increasingly difficult to get peer support in the Product Engineering Division.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
The company frequently leans on a "Mutual Termination" strategy to push employees out while sidestepping standard German labor protections. Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) are often used as precursors to termination with minimal severance rather than as genuine development tools. HR communication regarding labor rights is frequently misleading, seemingly capitalizing on those unfamiliar with local law to bypass key legal requirements for performance-based exits.
Many middle managers are talented but inexperienced. They often demonstrates drawback in conflict management.
Kommunikation
Transparency is a very hard to find value in this organization. Particularly the 2024 role recalibration and 2025 layoff brought about strong distrust in the organization. Task assignment is highly unstructured. The organization has a growing pain in communication as the organization gets increasingly larger in head count.
Gehalt/Benefits
Around 2023, the pay was very competitive in the market. Employees joining recently are very more likely to be offered worse package.
Gleichberechtigung
Diversity hire. Presence of diverse global workforce.