Check the department carefully: Skilled colleagues, but partly significant leadership problems
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Remote work/home office, high domain expertise, international colleagues
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Partially toxic leadership, systemic gender disparity
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Transition the team lead role to a manager with proven competence, constructive communication skills, and unbiased leadership.
Enforce zero-tolerance policies for public reprimands, establishing psychological safety standards.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
The team lead's volatile conduct, lack of management competency, and erratic planning cause severe workflow disruption.
Systematic gender bias is present, resulting in the exclusion and disproportionate departure of female employees from leadership roles.
As a result of this mismanagement, the team fails to meet industry-standard delivery benchmarks expected at Fraunhofer.
Work-Life-Balance
Excellent!
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
Good
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Employees actively support and protect one another to mitigate the impact of the toxic management style and public criticism.
Cross-functional execution relies entirely on bottom-up initiative rather than established organizational structures.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Good.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Lack of management knowledge and structured planning leads to shifting priorities and unfulfilled deliverables.
All communication is deliberately funnelled through the lead to secure his position, creating operational bottlenecks and blocking autonomous workflows.
Male employees receive preferential treatment, while female team members face systematic barriers to leadership roles and disproportionately high turnover.
The team lead uses public reprimands instead of constructive feedback, creating a hostile and psychologically unsafe environment.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Good
Kommunikation
A limited communication framework or formal team grid exists, preventing autonomous collaboration and cross-functional workflow efficiency.
Public reprimands and non-constructive feedback by the team lead have established a hostile environment that suppresses open communication.
As a result of this lack of structure and negative workplace culture, the team's capacity to organize tasks, plan deliverables, and execute projects is systematically blocked.
Gleichberechtigung
Our female employees are systematically excluded from leadership roles, key project assignments, and career advancement opportunities.
Interessante Aufgaben
Excellent