Great place to start your career
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Beautiful office, young and driven team, I appreciate the company's flexibility!
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
The more experienced you get, the more concerning salary becomes. My recent promotion to a higher role resulted in 50 eur extra every month (after taxes), which is a very comic amount of salary increase.
Also, I believe the company is missing experienced Team Managers. Most of the hard-working and actually smart people I met were working on hands-on tasks (content, data, platform managers), while Managers skillset is often questionable.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
I would encourage to improve your internal promotions - whenever there is an open position, the priority should be to hire internally, and only then externally.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
I find the overall working atmosphere positive. The team is very international and young, driven.
Work-Life-Balance
Pros: Possibility to work from abroad (few months per year), only 2 days per month are mondatory for the office work (team days). The core working hours are 10:00-17:00, you can decide if you want to start your day at 8:00 AM or later, eg 10:00 AM. I never had any problems of arranging my doctor appointments or leaving earlier if needed.
Cons: Some people find the core hours still too strict, same as coming to the office 2 days per month. It's not a work for people who are expecting fully remote job (the working model is hybrid).
Also, my previous companies were inviting people to volunteer, dedicating some hours monthly working for the NGO they want. For me, it was a very nice touch.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Pros: there are few hours a month that you can dedicate for self-learning, eg watching courses online or attending some workshops. Also, company sometimes introduces some new ideas that would support people in upskilling (for instance, internal educational tool called Academia).
Cons: there is no budget for your learning/development, so you can only access sources that are free. The possibility to grow in a company is very vague - you kinda have a development plan, but even if you achieve your goals, it doesn't mean you will get promoted to another role of another seniority level. Overall Seniority levels are very confusing.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
The accounts I worked in were small to medium size and people were very supportive and collaborative. I did meet some people whose attitudes towards other people success was weird, but they were exceptions.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Cons: the average age of the company is young, we don't have any older colleagues, I haven't met any team member who would retire in upcoming 10 years.
Long working team members are not promoted easily, and even with promotion, the salary hardly changes.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Pros: the managers I worked with were overall nice people. Company is always improving their operational tools and templates, to make accounts work in more balanced way. Different models of managing are tested (for instance, accounts having Delivery and Client Manager instead of the Account Manager). You can see a lot of efforts put to improve.
Cons: the managers I worked with were, as I mentioned, nice people, however I have met very few really experienced and professional managers. My impression was that most of them had very similar skilset to me (working in non-management position), so to trust their opinion or respect their decision making was often difficult. Basically, the atmosphere is often "nobody knows anything, let's figure it out", cute - yes. Not professional though.
Arbeitsbedingungen
The office is located in central area of Berlin, beautiful building. Office is equipped with everything you need. People working from home are provided monitors, chairs, headsets and everything they need.
Kommunikation
Pros: there are company meetings where all the team members gather together and share not only what is happening in different accounts, but also in the company overall (for example, how company is doing financially, what is planned..). I didn't have this kind of meetings in my previous jobs, so I appreciate the transparency.
Cons: I worked in different teams in this company, and they all had one issue - the lack of transparency between Account Managers and the rest of the team. You could always sense that they know more than the rest, and team will be delivered the news at the very last minute. Person got fired? Nobody knows why. Another colleague got moved to another team? Again, no details provided.
Gehalt/Benefits
I think that for the career starters, the salary is fine. But with the time, once you develop your skills, get higher seniority, maybe even go to higher positions, your salary hardly changes. The longer you work in the company, the more problematic this topic becomes.
Gleichberechtigung
Pros: I haven't noticed any cases when women coming back after the maternity leave would be in disadvantage, at least on the surface.
Cons: I can't support it with any data, but I have a feeling that men are faste r to be promoted than woman in this company.
Interessante Aufgaben
Pros: people often change positions, move from one account to another, so you can learn different tools. Also, services are very different in each account, so have a chance to develop completely new skills.
Cons: If you are working for several years in the same account, same role, you will get bored.