Poor leadership, issues between teams, hired to fix the mess
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
The benefits are good (although they can't outweigh the issues). I formed some great connections and met some lovely people.
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
The behaviour of some of the superiors was simply unacceptable and plays a big part in the worsening reputation and employee satisfaction.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Well, you might want to look into the issues that were mentioned above. Also the frequent coming and going of employees is concerning and the reason for it is pretty much obvious but noone steps in to tackle it.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Employee happiness is not a core part in the companies objective, it's often eerily quiet, there are fights between department leaders, employees refusing to talk to each other, overall unprofessional behaviour and throwing someone under the bus did and will happen. Employees were sometimes poorly trained/onboarded and their struggle to try and get everything right without guidance was visible in the stress a lot of them felt.
Image
The image does match the reality. And it's not really a good image.
Work-Life-Balance
Got contacted outside of working hours, home office option is available, unless your boss says it's not because they don't want to take responsibility/be the representative in the office for the team. Coworkers mentioned a boss who denied holiday/ special vacation requests based solely on their mood. A lot of employees barely take their 30 minute lunch break and go back to work or just work during the break to keep up with the workload.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Being promoted is possible but might take a long time, some employees mentioned they knew the wouldn't come far in the company because a degree meant more to them than years of experience in the field. There are options to develop but some said its pretty much based on whether your boss favors you. Additional training is therefore available though.
Gehalt/Benefits
The pay was lower than the average but overall okay
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
A lot is done digitally
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Within the teams the teamwork could be pretty good depending on the team. Between teams the communication was poor and a lot of people seemed to avoid having to talk to other teams overall. It seemed like people dreaded cross department events and people expressed they were being treated unfairly by other departments.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Respecting superiors is very important
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Everyone's doing overtime, even new joiners, because noone wants to take responsiblity or cares enough to properly train/supervise newcomers or hire enough people. One superior does overtime all the time, while another is on the phone or online shopping half of the time. A team leader from one department answers questions of a Newcomer from a completely different team because the other team leader is more busy to make a third team leader look bad. Coworkers mentioned rude behavior including yelling and belittling from a superior towards Juniors. Some team leaders were great, some shouldn't have become team leaders to begin with.
Arbeitsbedingungen
It's a great building, new equipment
Kommunikation
Onboarding was none existent, had to figure everything out from scratch basically unsupervised, and the bosses and people in charge were rather unphased when questions came up and just redirected you to the next person who wouldn't answer. One leader even refused to answer E-Mails, and take any responsibility. No feedback, no constructive criticism, the way the end of contract was handled was inhumane. Overall no transparency, no good reasoning, no space for conversation, just unprofessional behaviour.
Interessante Aufgaben
There was a variety of tasks, but the only thing 'interesting' was how you had to figure everything out on your own. You also might find yourself doing tasks that weren't part of your position, and not discussed beforehand, being assigned to you while noone checked if you were even comfortable with doing them. You do get responsiblity early on, too early, and then have to deal with the pressure and backlash from different sides if there was a mistake or a delay.