Creating trusted companies...with zero internal trust.
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
- my team was great and I strongly believe they can achieve great things outside of this company where there efforts would be better acknowledged and rewarded.
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
- Poor communication from top management
- lack of trust from top management is easily the biggest red flag here.
- poor salary increments
- no career development plans
- values are nothing but words on a paper. You keep hearing
To summarize, top management is what is holding this company back because time and again they've shown that
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Learn to care about your employees.
Appreciate them when they do a good job instead of putting them down. For a company with more than 600 employees,
Arbeitsatmosphäre
There's a clear lack of trust from top management down. Audits are carried out without relevant employees or subject matter experts being consulted or involved.
I've been asked to listen to a new senior hire just because of the fancy names on his CV. All this creates a pretty poor atmosphere to work and develop and can really effect ones self-confidence.
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I believe there's a disconnect with how employees perceive the company vs top management.
For example, top management will pat themselves in the back on how great their decision to layoff 10% of the headcount was vs how employees talk about how poorly managed it all was.
So I think top management is massively out of touch with the ground reality.
Work-Life-Balance
-1 star because of the inflexibility around the no holiday carry over policy which could be good depending on an individuals situations.
I'm not from the EU which means that I can't go spend time with my family and work remotely from there. This means that most of my annual holidays are gone by Jan/Feb which is usually when I can go home.
So, if you're going to constantly boast about how employees are from all over the world, then make the effort to be slightly accommodative towards their needs.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
No career development plans. I was with the company for nearly 3 years and not once this topic was brought up in any of my review calls. I don't blame my reporting manager because no career development plans exist.
Sure there are quarterly reviews, etc. but these are rather superficial with no real outcome.
The company would rather spend up to a year trying to hire someone external for a role rather than make the effort to either train or promote an employee. This is very demoralizing.
Gehalt/Benefits
Personally, I believe my starting salary was more than competitive but then the annual salary hikes are very poor and don't really match an individuals performance.
Also the difference in salary between team members is just unfair. I know colleagues who work as hard as anyone and are getting paid peanuts.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
So definitely the focus dropped off after the new investors came on board.
Still I believe colleagues play their part. But then it doesn't really matter if top management is flying across Europe or cross-Atlantic on a regular basis.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Despite everything, cohesion amongst colleagues remains strong in my opinion.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Once upon a time there were plans for a new Berlin office. From 2024, this was completely cancelled and all Berlin employees were given home office contracts or a very poor offer to move to Munich.
Since then, no efforts have really been made to provide a working space option for the colleagues based in Berlin. Sure, an offer was made to provide the necessary equipment for a comfortable home office setup but most people had this since home office wasn't really a topic from 2024 but before that.
Kommunikation
There have been attempts to improve communication in terms of introducing Barcamps, Town halls etc. but still, communication from top management remains poor.
Gleichberechtigung
Salary inequality is a big problem.
Within a team, there are cases of colleagues on the same seniority level earning far less than others despite being in the same location.