DataGuard

Bewertungen

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

- Definitely great culture!
- The team and working atmosphere is exactly what I was looking for (young and dynamic but still professional)
- Great onboarding (In my opinion unmatched for the size of the company)

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Maybe already compile a list of resources that employees can spend their development budget on to further encourage them to do so (or offer other support)
Please improve the commuting support. I can not properly use the monthly allowance as my train ticket price is too high.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

The working atmosphere at DataGuard is amazing. Even though, the team consists of over 30 different nationalities and cultures, everyone is respected. I felt welcome from day 1.

Image

I think DataGuard's image is great (even though you probably won't come in contact with the company in your daily life). Privacy and Information Security is a great field to be in at the moment.

Work-Life-Balance

Karriere/Weiterbildung

DataGuard offers great opportunities for career progression since it is growing so rapidly! Also, every employee gets a dedicated development budget which can be used for any kind of development including trainings, workshops, books, and e-learning courses. However, to benefit from this, you have to be proactive and take the first step.

Gehalt/Benefits

For an entry position, DataGuard offers me a great compensation, especially if you consider the benefits consisting of gym membership, development budget, and commuting subsidy.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

The company already started supporting some initiatives around (female) empowerment, especially in developing countries. Also, there are some efforts to do good for the environment. I think there is still room for improvement. However, I have no doubt that further efforts will be made since the people team is doing a great job in this regard and is really committed.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

My colleagues are really great. I joined my team straight from University and even though I'm the youngest and the most inexperienced, everyone was really welcoming and helped me to get settled in my position pretty fast.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

There are not a lot of older colleagues in the company. However, the ones that have been with DataGuard since the beginning are valued and appreciated.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

I'm still starting out in my new position, so maybe I'm not the best one to say. But my team lead is really supportive so far. He gives me the time I need to get settled properly and encourages honest feedback from both sides. Throughout the team meetings, he is very understanding of the team members.

Arbeitsbedingungen

The IT set-up and technical support are really amazing! The only area for improvement I see is the table situation. At the moment, my team works in an open-plan office room. This can sometimes be quite noisy when everyone is doing calls.

Kommunikation

The contact to the founders is very casual, and I'm not afraid to state my opinion. Besides weekly meeting in my team and department, everyone gets updated about the latest achievements and challenges in the weekly, company-wide all-hands.

Gleichberechtigung

From the beginning of the interview process, I felt that everyone was given equal opportunities and that everyone had equal treatment in their position. This has also been reflected since the beginning of my work at DataGuard.

Interessante Aufgaben

As I just started in my position, a lot of my tasks still consist of the onboarding. However, I got the impression that tasks are equally distributed between team members and that everyone has the chance to influence the work by bringing forward their ideas and feedback

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Management genuinely cares about teams and individuals to a degree I’ve rarely seen anywhere. Communication and transparency are absolutely outstanding.

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Some growing pains here and there – but nothing that I’m seriously concerned about for the long run.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Make it more attractive for people to come to the office regularly, e.g. through a more physically pleasant environment and better equipment.

Other than that, keep doing what you’re doing – not everything is great yet, but the overall trajectory is highly promising.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

The company manages to strike the right balance between being a good-humored start-up and gradually moving towards a more professional scale-up. There’s always room for fun and games, but in certain situations, a higher degree of seriousness is needed and therefore requested by the company.

If there is one thing to criticize, it’s the fact that the company is organized in classic departments, leading to occasional knowledge silos and/or tunnel vision when it comes to goal setting and executing initiatives. There is a tendency to move away from this structure through the introduction of 3 company pillars (Go-to-Market, Customer Experience and People & Ops) that makes me feel positive about strong(er) cross-functional collaboration in the future.

Work-Life-Balance

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

The office has the typical bins for waste separation – sadly not all colleagues use these as intended.

Every employee gets their RYDES account charged monthly to encourage the use of public transport. The RYDES app shows an individual sustainability report as well as a company-wide report. Also, for company travel, using trains rather than cars or flights is encouraged through a travel policy.

Regarding social contributions, DataGuard regularly participates in fundraising activities in Germany as well as abroad.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

The company has clear career paths, which after the initial levels splits into expert and management paths. A “Level Up” program has recently been established to mentor potential future experts and managers. Also, at least in our department, people have been promoted based on merit rather than plain years of experience => great!

Each employee has a generous 1,500 EUR development budget and an agreed development plan with their manager. As it should be, responsibility to actually use the budget and follow through with the development plan lies with the individual.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

While there are certainly people who aren’t fully pulling their weight and/or with a tendency towards a negative attitude and/or “me” instead of “we” focus, this is to be expected from a company that has grown to its current size. Instead, it’s rather impressive that DataGuard has dozens of highly motivated people across all departments who go out of their way to be supportive towards each other and together move forward with the company as one cohesive unit. I also can’t remember ever experiencing any backstabbing or anything of that kind as long as I’ve been here.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

By nature, a start-up/scale-up attracts more younger than older people. From what I can say from past and present, older colleagues are neither favored nor discriminated against – there is a genuine effort to hear different voices in discussions and there is no bias towards/against either the experience and wisdom older colleagues bring to the table, nor the radical thoughts of the younger people.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

All I’ve experienced so far was direct, open and honest communication about positive as well as negative topics. Management not only takes criticism seriously but also proactively asks about their behavior (“Was this too much? Did I come across rude?”). All of this applies to individual communication (1on1s etc.), work in groups and last but not least company-wide communication (e.g. in the weekly all-hands).

Arbeitsbedingungen

Aside from the 5th floor (where the community and all-hands space is), the Munich office is rather oldschool and unexciting.

Same goes for the IT equipment: There’s not much wrong with it per se, but a tech company could/should probably invest a bit more into a more frictionless and modern experience. Prominent example: The headphones the company provides aren't noise-cancelled and (at best) average quality => not ideal for company that's call-heavy with customers and colleagues.

There’s a limited number of meeting rooms for collaborative work, but no single person phone booths or similar to have sensitive and/or longer calls.
Location of the office is rather decent – easy to reach using all kinds of public transport and with quite a bunch of affordable and good quality lunch options close by.

The company has a Home Office policy in place that mandates 40% office presence (although I'm not aware of managers executing this to the letter as long as people perform well). While I think regular physical presence is a good thing, I'd much rather have it encouraged through a pleasant office environment with good equipment than a policy.

Kommunikation

Communication is open and transparent. The founders provide their view on the macro and micro markets and share things like revenue (plan vs. actual), relevant new and churned customers etc. on an at least monthly basis. This requires a high degree of trust from management (especially the founders) and they’re willing to give that trust quite freely.

Gehalt/Benefits

Personally, I can’t complain at all: I’m fairly compensated for the work that I do and the role that I have.

The topic of compensation/salary changes has been proactively addressed by my manager so far in the half-yearly review cycles.

Gleichberechtigung

DataGuard is a highly diverse company with employees from several dozen origin countries. Some departments and teams are more diverse than others (e.g. Engineering is particularly diverse). So far, I’ve not witnessed any discrimination based on nationality.

With regards to gender equality, while people identifying as male are definitely the majority (both in the company as a whole as well as in management/leadership positions), there is no discrimination against non-male people that I’m aware of. Also, the company (under the helm of the Chief People Officer) is working hard to bring more women to DataGuard (e.g. through network events) and get them into management/leadership positions.

Interessante Aufgaben

The long and short of it is: You won’t get bored here and there’s always more than enough stuff to do. To a certain degree, you’re also in charge of your own faith: If there’s a topic that’s near and dear to your heart and you want to work on it, you can make room for it as long as your duties don’t suffer from it.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

It’s so fun to work at DataGuard. It’s the perfect working environment for people who want to go to work every day excited to tackle challenges head-on!

Arbeitsatmosphäre

DataGuard has a really strong team spirit. Highs and lows are celebrated and examined collectively.

Work-Life-Balance

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Training budgets are generous and colleagues are actively encouraged to spend them. For high potential individual contributors, an internal training program called ‘Level Up’ is in place to help prepare these individuals for leadership and expert positions. ‘Level Up’ is fantastic because it prepares people well for the challenges that come with moving up the ranks. From experiencing the program first hand, I feel that DataGuard really cares about who they promote into leadership and want to be sure that people in leadership positions will properly support their teams and the growth of the company.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Everyone is encouraged to bring their own ideas and feedback, whether you are C-Level or a working student.

Kommunikation

Clear communication in all teams. Founders are transparent and strategic decisions are explained to everyone.

Interessante Aufgaben

Every day is different, the workplace is extremely dynamic.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Sympathisches Gesamtpaket. Start-Up-Atmosphäre. Mitarbeiter und Vorgesetzte ohne ätzende Egos oder Allüren, wie man es mitunter aus (Groß)Kanzleien oder Beratungsunternehmen kennt.

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Teilweise sehr hoher Workload.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Mehr Mitarbeiter einstellen.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Das Arbeitsklima ist angenehm. Trotz mitunter sehr hohen Workloads verspürt man keinen übermäßigen Druck. Man hat das Gefühl von Grundvertrauen der Vorgesetzten. Alle scheinen bestrebt einander das (Arbeits-)Leben leichter zu machen.

Work-Life-Balance

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Es gibt die unterschiedlichsten Möglichkeiten, sich weiterzuentwickeln. Neben einem großzügigen Weiterbildungsbudget liegt ein großer Fokus auf Mitarbeiterentwicklung.

Gehalt/Benefits

Gehalt wahrscheinlich marktüblich. Viele Benefits, wie Mobilitätsbudget, Fitnesstudio etc.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Kritik wird offen geäußert. Wer nach Hilfe fragt, bekommt sie umgehend.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Alle Altersklassen vertreten.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Nahbare Vorgesetzte, die einem aber genug Freiraum geben. Eigeninitiative ist gern gesehen und wird unterstützt.

Kommunikation

Regelmäßige Meetings der Teams und abteilungsübergreifend. Auch remote in stetigem Kontakt mit allen.

Gleichberechtigung

Völlig irrelevant. Es geht nach Geeignetheit, nicht nach Quote. Viele Wiedereinsteigerinnen nach Mutterzeit usw. Frauen in Führungspositionen.

Interessante Aufgaben

Die wohl breiteste Palette an Aufgaben, die man sich vorstellen kann. Leider auch viel Verwaltung, die aber auf das nötigste begrenzt scheint. Keine "unsinnigen" Tätigkeiten. Es wird merklich daran gearbeitet, den Mitarbeiter so viel Verwaltungskram wie möglich zu ersparen/vereinfachen.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Viele junge Menschen sorgen für Lebhaftigkeit und Motivation

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Nap-Room
Deos & Haargel auf Männer Toiletten
Bei Hitze Speiseeis anbieten

Image

Haben ein gutes Image bei Corporates

Work-Life-Balance

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Development Pläne sind sehr wichtig

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Super, dass DG sozialen Einrichtungen öfters Leistungen mit Rabatt anbietet.

Arbeitsbedingungen

Fehlen einer Klimaanlage führte dazu, dass die Rolländen unten bleiben und es so sehr dunkel ist

Kommunikation

Transparenz bezüglich Kennzahlen als Grundlage dafür, was getan werden muss um dorthinzukommen, hat mir gut gefallen

Interessante Aufgaben

Alles mal annehmen, sich ansehen und später gezielt ablehnen war eine erfoglreiche Strategie

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Interessante Teambuilding-Events,
Möglichkeiten zur Weiterbildung/Entwicklung

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Sehr entspannte aber konzentrierte Atmosphäre

Work-Life-Balance

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Auf Weiterbildung und Entwicklung der Mitarbeiter wird großer Wert gelegt, Lernbudget allerdings begrenzt.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Soziale Verwantwortung wird wahrgenommen

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Hilfsbereite Kollegen

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Sehr hilfsbereite Vorgesetzte auf Augenhöhe

Kommunikation

Klare Worte, wo sie notwendig sind aber dennoch Scherze, wo sie auch angebracht sind.

Interessante Aufgaben

Interessantes Produkt mit großem Wachstumspotential