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My colleagues, the interesting work, the culture in the teams. I haven't seen a company where colleagues organize so many private events where they invite company colleagues (before corona). The leadership style and transparency of the new management had a big influence on Coya. It feel again we are working together as a big Coya family towards a clear vision. The output from all teams increased again and there are many good news again.
Last year there was a time when business was slow and atmosphere at a low. Layoffs took place, but also some good people and friends left the company then.
Office is nicely located, could be better. The new management could try to get some of the good people who left last year back to Coya.
There was a time of a mixed atmosphere after some changes in the company took place, but that turned out to be very positive. The new management is super empowering and keeps up a good mood and motivation. Today there is a way more transparent atmosphere than in the past. Today I clearly know where we are heading with Coya, what we are working towards and how I support this with my work.
Coyas image is still very positive when talking with friends. Due to the big investment rounds and famous investors Coya became quite famous, there were some mixed news in the past when business was slow, but currently there are a lot of positive mentionings again. This positive change is also in line with the atmosphere internally.
Quite good work life balance, at times it can get more intense when specific targets should be met on time. There can also be times where it's more relaxed again. The company is today absolutely focussed on the output, not on the time people are working, which I like.
Various trainings are being offered as well as regular feedback talks to improve. There is a culture of continous learning.
Pay pretty much in line with other successful Berlin startups from my experience. Further additional company perks are being offered.
Very eco-friendly office and eco-friendly minded colleagues.
Good connection between colleagues. Social gatherings and dinners are common within colleagues.
No issue at all.
Management is motivating their teams, giving clear focus and setting the targets together with their teams. I felt is was important for my manager that not just the company is developing well, but also I am learning and continously improving.
Tech equipment is good, everybody can get a Mac or a Surface. The office is located in Berlin-Kreuzberg on 2 floors - however the top floor can become quite hot in the summer and the basement floor is rather dark.
I like the open and transparent communication from the top and also between the teams. Nobody is hiding something and issues are openly discussed. Everybody can openly give his or her opinion.
Big focus on equality.
Interesting work in the booming insurtech industry. I enjoy my tasks here, building up something new, often handle things the manual and easy startup way, as we were still developing. Due to the size of the overall company, it can be necessary to take over some other tasks once in a while, which can be very interesting or a bit boring.
Motivational top management is examplatory. Technology is awesome. Technical home office setup for all ready (but got limited to 1 day/week before Covid breakout...). Besides that, lately, the course of how things went in the tech team, there are really not many positive things.
Strategic changes seem to be made without any (valid) consulting of the department/team in question. C-level management is too alike, there seem no productive controversy anymore (and it always seem that there was never a really productive one). Communication and transparency of situation and decisions is very filtered. Decisions that should be taken in one department seem to be taken by another department. Insurance people and tech folks are rather spreading more and more from each other than moving together. Showing real and valid career opportunities to people.
A startup must be agile and change its focus/scope. However there should be some shades of grey and not only black&white solutions for as good as everything in the company. Management needs more transparency, again, it rather moves into top-down ruling and informing on their decisions. Finding the strategy that is really wanted to go with but talking to your people (it's still feasible, there are <60 left).
Usually friendly and fun relation to most people. However, continuous feeling of 1.5 years momentum of "we're on the edge of win or fail right now" followed by open announcements that "there was no real pressure yet..." does not yield in a truly positive atmosphere. Lately it felt like people were "recommended" to leave if they're not ready for the situation.
Fresh image of a new, digital, cool brand. Wearing the company hoody I've got recognised, positively recognised, several times when being off-line interacting with the products' target groups.
For a start-up, it's been fair - more work intense periods but usually no permanent very very late evening work, also eg Parental leave was to my understanding granted to all who requested but as it's a startup with very seldom equivalent backup for the responsibilities and tasks once on leave.
Personal growth plan was rolled-out, stopped, re-initiated aka no constant plan... Very few people get promoted to positions with a real change (and stay much longer). In my entire time I was not able to join any external educational event like conferences (paid by the company) while business people seemed to constantly go to such.
Salary in the tech team is rather below raising Berlin market prices. Also with a shadow shift that seem to aim on getting rather cheaper personal in other locations. For other departments, I am unaware of the salary level. Perks are regular pension schema, health app, regular (but increased) number of holidays, stock options (that seem only beneficial to the very first folks), nothing that substantially pops the payment.
Separation of garbage and a product features to donate parts of the revenue. Nothing extra-ordinary but more then regular.
Speaking mostly for the Tech team, there is a strong feeling of helping and supporting each other - especially witting the older folks. However, when I left I had the feeling that the new management tries to split this feeling and shield newer people from it.
There is only one guys ~50 and very few 40+, I believe. However, these folks are treated like anyone else.
High expectations have been going with the company ever since, mostly top management and managers struggle to transfer this into positive actions except motivational speeches and public company representation. Strategic planning is reversed and adjusted too often, quarterly OKRs are forgotten once written, management is hick-jacking between complete laissez-faire and micro-management. From the beginning a lack of trust and respect from top management people (eg humiliation in all-hands meeting a la "Don't you all have no pride?!").
After moving into an office with natural sunlight, the environment became way better. Equipment has been great, especially for tech. However, there are rumours to ban Linux for dev... startup perks like drinks, fruits, breakfast bar.
Struggling to get transparency into the company and the teams, especially in tech team a change of the management turned open, transparent communication into top-down micro-management.
In theory and communication highly equal employer, however my feeling was always that most male believe to be superior over their female counterparts. In general female lead positions are rather underrepresented in counting.
In the past years building all from scratch was very interesting, very up-to-date technologies and stack, also insurance as a product is very complex and interesting. But it mainly depends on which area of responsibility you were assigned to.
I really enjoy working here! Even though we are already more than 80 employees we still have a great start up culture and friendly and open minded colleagues.
There are also fun team events and summer/christmas parties happening with a lot of engagement and teambuilding.
Many applicants might be deterred by the bad reviews here & in Glassdoor but I think lately things changed a lot (management board shift and office move).
Since Coya is now also on the list "10 German startups to watch in 2019" the image is quite well!
Flexible Working Hours
Homeoffice
Urban Sports Club Membership support
Various learning sessions are offered at Coya and will be further developed.
German class
Management training
So far I experienced good team work and also nice cross-functional collaboration.
Many skilled and experienced colleagues to learn from.
More than 20 nationalities and a lot of different opinions.
My supervisor is always transparent an excellent mentor for me from whom I can learn a lot. I feel that even though I am still an intern I can shape processes and my opinion is valued very much. Also, I get a lot of responsibility to proof my strengths.
There was a shift in the management board, genuinely speaking I can not confirm the previous complaints about the management being non-start up. They are giving their best effort to motivate and pull the team together.
Coya reacted to the complaints concerning the rather dark office and moved to the second floor with much daylight and a big office. The rooms downstairs are now used as meeting rooms and a lounge area with table tennis and kicker.
However, it's an open-plan office and sometimes a bit noisy. Coya already try to fix problem with partition walls.
There was a shift in the management board, genuinely speaking I can not confirm the previous complaints about the management being non-start up. They are giving their best effort to motivate and pull the team together.
Participation in the company's success with a share option program
Very interesting and challenging environment to work in.
If you are interested in FinTech, this is the place to be.
Disrupting the established market using the latest technology.
- free fruits and drinks
- great working atmosphere
- many team events
- office dogs
- one is involved in many tasks/topics
- appreciation
- trust-based working time
- home office is possible
- career opportunities because of a growing team
It becomes noticeable as soon as a person is absent due to illness or holidays because it is a small team. But if you like to work for your company, you can also do this for a certain period of time and it should be no problem.
Take employee wishes seriously. The job market is open. It would be a shame to lose good people to other companies.
versuch eine etablierte Branche anzugreifen
Schlechtes Vorstandsmanagement / unerfahrene Leute, keine Führungsqualifikation, zerstritten, ein Desaster für das Marktpotential und das verlorne Inverstment.Schlechtes Management! Würde sonst sicher funktionieren.
Tauscht die Vorstände aus. Top Leute verlassen das Unternehmen wegen totaler Unfähigkeit, die auch der Aufsichtsrat nicht richtig einschätzt.
Führungsseitig eine Kathastrophe
keins
Start up
training on the job
Aufsichtsrat versteht es nicht Startup zu kompensieren
Biologische Reinigungsfirma
sehr gut
Anfang Ende 30er
letzttklassig
Tools gut, Vorgesetzte Kathastrophe
besser als in Corporate, aber teilweise von obern herab
Anteil Deutscher unter 10%
fachlich als auch technis
Very international environment with skilled and experienced colleagues.
The management style is very top-down and decisions are made by a few people in the organisation.
Start involving and engaging your employees ...
I liked working with my younger colleagues a lot and spent also many evenings after work with my colleagues. However, how the company was led from the top reminded me very much of corporate practices and not really the startup way.
I think the external image very much suffered over the last couple of months also due to employees leaving the company.
I was one of the first employees and in the beginning, the workload was quite heavy but OKish for a startup. After the heavy lifting things improved a bit.
Good salary for a Berlin-based startup
In general, the colleagues were really nice.
Unfortunately, I did not feel involved in shaping strategic / product discussions and received clear tasks for execution only. This is very untypical for a startup and reminded me very much of the good old corporate world. I missed the regular interaction with the top management.
Nice office location in Kreuzberg.
The communication between my colleagues and the team leads was really good but it was difficult to have regular catch-ups with the top management.
Very interesting and challenging tasks with not even one day being the same...
Innovation focus, interesting work, my team.
The missing transparency why we do certain things. The traditionally-minded board.
Tell the management board to act more in a startup way and really lead the company.
Good atmosphere between the teams and colleagues. Sometimes tension between the management board and the teams, as the company wants to run as a startup and the management board is very traditional and hierarchical.
I think since the big investments into Coya the image is very good, playing in the league of the bigger startups. Just people ask me if the reviews on the net are really true in terms of being an interesting employer. As some things in the reviews are not accurate, I wanted to write this review.
Very good work life balance for a Berlin startup. Most people arrive at 9-10am and leave 5-7pm. No weekend work.
Various learning sessions are offered at Coya.
Wages are in line with other bigger Berlin startups, at least in my case. The compensation of others is not transparent. It's company policy that every employee gets some virtual share options and you can also get cheaper gym package.
Not using a lot of paper, buying fair trade coffee (I think). Also Coya just donated a larger amount to charity.
Everybody is really helpful and supportive. A least in our team there is no blaming for not achieving our goals, but we analyze that causes the failure to be better next time. Continuous improvement is lived by most team at Coya.
Not many older colleagues, but the ones we have are treated like everybody else and fully integrated and respected.
I have a very good connection team head. We are aligned on my tasks and he appreciates my work, without mirco management. The management board sometimes try to micro management the teams heads and there were also cases, when the performance of teams shown bad by the management in company meetings. In general the management board tends to focus on talking about targets not being achieved and talking teams bad, instead of showing appreciation for successes. Might just be their way of working coming from traditional insurance companies.
Office is in the basement and a bit dark, but the office itself is quite nice and offers a lot of space. There are also always a couple of dogs around to cuddle with when a pause is needed.
The Management Board at Coya is a guarantor for surprises. :-D Not in a startup way, but it's very hierarchical and not transparent. They think all decisions most come from the top and everything the management board says is the right way. But most decisions are taken by the Management Board only, without involvement of the teams. Then they invite very short notice for a meeting with all colleagues and present their decisions, often causing surprising faces in the teams, that directions are changed again or experts in the teams questioning the sense of the decisions being made without involvement of the teams. It's a bit chaotic and it's currently not really a leadership from the management board, as teams increasingly lost the believe in their orders. It feels that due to contradicting orders by different board members to the teams, which led to chaos before, the team leads now increasingly organize and align themselves across the teams, which works much better than following orders from the top.
Coya takes care!
It's super interesting work. We are working on real innovation and also using the latest technology. And the target customers are our age, so it's easy to identify with them.
really knowledgeable and great colleagues, good atmosphere, challenging work, kreuzberg area for nice lunch opportunities
sometimes some more focus and guidance is needed as there are so many possibilities to go for.
I really enjoy coming to work and have some nice chats in the kitchen
I guess the image kind of still needs to "establish" as not that long on the market yet
possibilites for home office and flexible hours, I can also do my doctors appointments and fit my schedule. would not say it is a 9 to 5 job, but a day off e.g. when you move, makes it easier
there are a lot of internal trainings and also possibility to attend conference or special trainings. Also a lot of on-the-job training and mentoring.
salary is good, also some other benefits already there like share options, sports club and language courses.
nothing that comes to my mind now
nice colleagues who also care outside of normal working hours. people are from many different backgrounds and spots from the world which is a nice mix.
there are also a few older colleagues. wouldn't say a startup with only people from university but with job experience. most people I think around 30.
I enjoy working with my manager and had good direct meetings. sometimes he is a bit busy but then I can also just approach other colleagues for some help
I have all equipment I need and good device. there is some noise in the office from construction work. I know they already tried to push the landlord for doing sth about this.
is good in general, sometimes hard to find the right balance between too much information and sometimes too little. I could see improvements though lately.
very challenging and constant development going on. learnt a lot of new stuff already due to the nature of being in startup but having to watch out for regulatory things at the same time
- i learned a lot during my internship at Coya and would not want to miss the experience
- nice and helpful mentors
- friendly, relaxed "family"-atmosphere
- fun team events, like the welcome events or cultural brunches
- great office location (right near paul-lincke ufer with many good lunch options around)
- interesting & challenging tasks
- learning sessions/workshops
- flexible working times
- and last but not least: joey (the cutest office dog ever!)
- one downside for me is that the office is rather dark and cold unless it's summer
- sometimes a bit loud since it's a shared office (however, there are enough quiet places you can escape to)
Herausfordernde Aufgaben, es wird viel an Verantwortung übertragen
Etwas hellere Büros wären im Winter schöner, zumindest vereinzelt wären Einzelbüros wünschenswert weil die Lautstärke im Großraumbüro die Konzentration leiden lassen kann.
Gerade im Aufbaubereich eines Start-ups sind Kapazitätsengpässe aufgrund begrenzter Ressourcen unvermeidlich, vereinzelt wären mehr Ressourcen wünschenswert.
Marke ist positiv besetzt und wird am Markt auch positiv wahrgenommen.
Elternzeit wird auch bei Führungskräften positiv unterstützt, auch Abwesenheiten aufgrund kurzfristigen Betreuungsbedarfs des Kinds ist kein Problem
Sowohl interne als auch externe Weiterbildung wird angeboten und aktiv unterstützt.
Für Start-Ups gut, für Versicherungen unter Durchschnitt.
Ältere Kollegen werden auch aufgrund Ihrer Erfahrung sehr geschätzt. Der Altersschnitt ist per se wohl etwas höher als in anderen Start-ups.
Siehe Kommunikation, diese könnte teilweise klarer und umfassender sein. Einbeziehung der Mitarbeiter in die Ziele ist in Ordnung.
Es ist und bleibt halt Souterrain, dafür aber mit Charme. Equipment ist state-of-art.
Ansagen könnten klarer sein und Informationen umfassender geteilt werden. Gibt viele Verbesserungen hinsichtlich des Informationsflusses, aber es ist halt noch Luft nach oben.
In dieser Branche und dieser Profession gibt es wohl nichts spannenderes im Augenblick in Deutschland.
So verdient kununu Geld.