Verbesserungsvorschläge

• regelmäßige Updates über Änderungen in der Firma und Konkretes aus anderen Abteilungen
• weniger Fokus auf das Einhalten von bestimmten Formen, eher eine Verschlankung dieser Prozesse (OKRs, Reviews, Alliance etc.)
• Schnellere Entscheidungen im Recruiting und nicht zu lange warten, bis alles zu spät ist
• Beschwerden von Mitarbeitern wirklich ernst nehmen und schneller agieren
• Vertrauensperson
• Vorgesetzte sollten alle auch in Führung geschult werden

Pro

Es bewegt sich alles sehr schnell und nach vorne, man hat eigentlich nie das Gefühl gegen eine Mauer zu laufen.
Mit einigen wenigen Ausnahmen hat man immer das Gefühl, dass alle am gleichen Strang ziehen und man sieht immer sehr schnell, was für Veränderungen man herbeiführen konnte und wie sich diese auswirken.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

jo, in Ordnung

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Als es Probleme mit einem Teamleiter gab, war niemand der "echten Vorgesetzen" bereit, zuzuhören.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Ja, definitiv ein Plus

Interessante Aufgaben

Naja, zwischen sehr interessant bis hin zu "Massenvermarktung" auf schnell schnell schnell

Kommunikation

Nein, nicht vorhanden. Trotz der so groß angepriesenen Offenheit, blieben tatsächlich offene Gespräche doch nur der Elite vorbehalten

Kommentar

Overall: incompetence of the tech lead of the department / other involved parties who first are answering the questions in one way and later changing their answers during the interview process.

I've applied for the job as a software developer.

Initially, everything seemed to be smooth. The first talk with the HR department, typical questions, next stage.

Then coding challenge arrived. Everything was good again and they invited me to the interview in the office.

I've answered to almost all the question I was asked.

After the first technical interview with tech lead I've asked him if I that is ok if I am not very familiar with technical secondary skills, but ready to learn that (I was applying as a frontend developer and they asked for backend skills which are not relevant to frontend at all). I've got the answer - "Yes, it's completely fine".

After all the 4 interview passed HR person came to me and told me the person who 3 hours ago told "yeah, it's ok not to have backend skills" suddenly changes his decision and now requires those skills.

Another bad thing - they've asked me a couple of personal questions they should not have asked. That's a very bad sign.

That's absolutely unacceptable! I don't know if it's the miscommunication between departments (HR and tech in that case) or just incompetence of one person, but that should not be how the things work.

Treat candidates well - and they will treat you well too!

GetYourGuide, you are just worsening the status of Berlin as tech capital of Germany. Don't do that, please.

Bewerbungsfragen

• what motivated you to search for a job in Getyourguide
• tell me about your CV and the areas you've worked with
• challenges you faced, how you solved them
• what would you do if someone in your team is being lazy or negligent about daily tasks (no one will ever give this a truthful answer, this is just ridiculous)
• the highlight of your career
• highlight of a vacation you went on
• 3 qualities/3 weakness
• Your ambition, where do you see yourself in the future in the company

Kommentar

I got the interview invitation per e-mail, which I confirmed and everything was OK. Couple of days after that, I got a declining e-mail from a second person telling me that my application wasn't a fit. That was my first red flag, this tells me that the company has major communication issues, and if it happens in the HR dpt, I'm not excited to see how the others are doing. Even so, I still got my interview call (from now what is a 3rd person involved) and I must say, for a "innovative, creative and young team" the interview is filled with standard-Human-Resources-since-forever-questions and very little space for a quick feedback on your own questions. The person was just saying "thank you" to my answers, instead of analyzing them or going back-and-forward.... didn't try to get to understand me as a potential employee and didn't try much to show me how it is to work with my future team. I said yes to another job because I wasn't willing to sit around waiting for them to schedule me for other 2 or 3 interviews as the month goes by and you just can't be even sure you are getting somewhere with them. I've heard that they make 2 phone interview and 2 meetings in person. This is really amateurish. I speak fluently many languages and have tons of experience, but at the end of it, it's clear that they search newbies with 0 work experience and students, which won't get loud about low wages.

Kommentar

Nach Einsendung der Bewerbung kam eine automatische Antwortmail. Danach aber nichts... Nach 2 Wochen nochmals per Mail nach einem Update gefragt. Auch hier: Keine Reaktion.