i-surance 

GmbH

Bewertungen

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Most colleagues were very nice

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There's nowhere to go with the company, it's a lost cause. It has its priorities completely wrong and it has way too many managers who think highly of themselves but are ultimately so incompetent it's sad.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

There was an awful work environment because the grand majority of employees were considered worthless and treated accordingly, while a certain someone always had a favourite employee who was lavished with praise, promotions, and money (weirdly enough they were always female) while everyone else was made to feel like useless crap. Most employees had also been offered incredible positions and conditions during the selection process, and found out when they started that the reality was nowhere near what they had been told. These employees became extremely frustrated, negative, unable to accept that they didn't have the seniority or management position they were led to think they would have, for example. The turnover was wild, absolutely wild, it would be near impossible to keep the work environment cheerful when colleagues are constantly leaving and management seems absolutely unbothered by it. The only reason I gave the atmosphere two stars, rather than one, is because I had many lovely colleagues, and we were very supportive of each other. Several of these colleagues are now my friends, but that is in no way anything good about the company, it's just luck.

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It might have had a somewhat decent image up until the end of last year, but by now it's pretty clear to everyone in the industry that i-surance isn't as great as it purported itself to be.

Work-Life-Balance

Pfffffffff. Unheard of. There were employees working until 3am regularly, management couldn't care less. Employees who asked for permission not to work for a couple of hours on a particular Sunday because they were expected to and had worked all the other Sundays, so they felt like they needed to ask if they wanted a couple hours off. When middle managers asked to hire because their teams couldn't manage the work between them, they were always ignored, and the poor middle manager had to watch all of his team quit because after a while they couldn't take the insane workload any more. The company always hired for positions that were absurd and made no sense (even creating an entire "innovation" department at one point only to fire everyone from it two months later) and never hired for the positions for which there was clear urgent need. One of the many reasons why people kept leaving and turnover was always so high.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Absolutely no career path whatsoever, no one is worried about your professional development. Very much in line with management's idea that everyone can be easily replaced and there's no reason to spend that much time and effort in trying to retain your employees. And that was another reason why lots of people left, and the turnover was always crazy high.

Gehalt/Benefits

Salaries varied wildly depending on how management felt about what you did. If management thought your job was important, you could be quite well paid. Upper management thought the most important department was sales, and these people should make the most money. It didn't matter if that was not the case in the market, for example, or if there were other departments much more essential to the functioning of the company - management thought sales was of the utmost importance and you were gonna earn much less than them, that's it. Even if you have more experience, more technical knowledge, a PhD, whatever. If they didn't really care much for what you did, then you'd be earning peanuts. And forget any sort of transparency or fairness: two people could be doing the same thing, in the same teams, and be earning completely different salaries. And everyone was terrified of asking for raises.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

There was so much flying, it's actually not even worth discussing the matter any further. Would be scared to ever see the CO2 footprint of i-surance even just in terms of air travel.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Most colleagues were actually great, and that was without a doubt the highlight of working at i-surance. Can't give it five stars because there were the odd ones, with bad intentions, who tried to bring their colleagues down or set them up for their own personal benefit.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Some people had their little cliques and weren't that welcoming to newcomers, but mostly it was a welcoming workplace.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Pfffffff again. There were some nice middle managers, mine wasn't one of them. But regardless of how nice they were, middle and upper managers were mostly wildly incompetent, had no ability or skill whatsoever in terms of people management, and should absolutely not have been managing people. Moreover, managers were allowed to deviate clearly from company policy, HR had no say on anything. There was total inconsistency, you had to ask your boss for feedback if you ever wanted any, absolute hell. And of course, as there was never any clear strategy, there was also never any possibility to succeed at giving people reasonable goals and objectives. When I joined the company, the person deciding on your bonus could give you what they felt like - in my case that person wasn't even someone from my department, they had no idea about my work. Anyways, the following year they made an attempt to set goals for the year in AUGUST, disregarding all your work for the previous eight months, and these goals and objectives were all things that were impossible to achieve because they decided that the goals shouldn't be personal, even though they would be the basis for your personal bonus.

Arbeitsbedingungen

It was OK, nothing spectacular, but nothing that hindered your work either.

Kommunikation

Awful, truly awful. Management was often unbelievably disrespectful, rude, and dishonest, it was not unusual to see colleagues crying or about to cry, and there was zero transparency. The entire time I worked there (quite some time) I never knew anything about the revenue, profits, state of affairs of the company at all. No strategy was ever communicated. Employees knew as little about how the company was doing as a random stranger in the street. And on top of that, there was a clear disparity between speakers of different languages: the company's official language was, for all intents and purposes, English, but German speakers spoke their native language freely, while native speakers of Portuguese, or Spanish, were told not to speak in their language. This from a company that allegedly praised diversity.

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Interessante Aufgaben

The work was interesting, most of the time, but many colleagues had to work on repetitive manual tasks and find workarounds through the system because the in-house software solution had been designed and built so badly, and so disconnected from what the departments actually needed. The tech team barely consulted anyone when building the software, so they basically set themselves up for failure on that and at the same time generated an infinite amount of headaches for their colleagues.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Attitude towards employees. Other companies should really learn how to do this :)

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Nothing. Comparing to the previous companies, this one is absolutely the best.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

1. Maybe a bit more flexible working hours? Like from 7 am ;)
2. Sometimes there is a looot of work, but the company hires non-stop, so they do their best to improve the efficiency.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

The atmosphere is awesome. People really respect each other and give support if only needed.

Work-Life-Balance

Home office is not an official rule, but if you need it, you can ask for it and you will most probably get it :D

Karriere/Weiterbildung

There are endless possibilities to develop or learn new skills. Travelling abroad, getting to know other people from all over the world (almost 30 different nationalities), learning languages, professional knowledge and much more.

Gehalt/Benefits

Way better than in other similar companies.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Very good. The people here are just NORMAL, everyone is hard-working, but nice to each other at the same time.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

They are fair and honest to the employees and have a lot of international experience. Right people on the right places :)

Arbeitsbedingungen

There is a lot of many tasks, but the hard work is always appreciated and accordingly rewarded.

Kommunikation

You can ask anyone about anything and it really works.

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Interessante Aufgaben

There is no place for boredom

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Das Unternehmen entwickelt sich ständig weiter, dadurch wird es nicht langweilig. Man kann viel mitbestimmen, neue Ideen sind immer willkommen.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Gute Atmosphäre, offener Umgang untereinander und es fehlt auch nicht an Professionalität.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Gute Stimmung im Büro und guter Zusammenhalt untereinander

Kommunikation

Kommunikationswege werden immer weiterentwickelt. Es wird darauf geachtet, dass alle Mitarbeiter über die Entwicklungen der Firma informiert werden

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Interessante Aufgaben

Die Aufgaben sind sehr vielfältig, es wird nicht langweilig und man hat jederzeit die Möglichkeite neue Ideen und Vorschläge einzubringen

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Stets offen für neue Ideen

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Sehr angenehme Atmosphäre durch richtige Mischung aus Professionalität und Spass

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Wirklich junges und innovatives Unternehmen, dass mit Traditionen bricht.

Work-Life-Balance

Sehr flexible Arbeitszeiten, gute Urlaubsregelung...aber auch viel zu tun

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Man lernt extrem schnell viel dazu, was einen voranbringt

Gehalt/Benefits

Sehr gutes Gehalt inkl. Bonus für gute Leistungen

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Gutes Umweltbewusst sein bei der Gestaltung der Produktprozesse.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Jeder kommt usprünglich aus einem anderen Bereich, wodurch Konkurrenz gering ist und der Fokus auf gemeinsamen Zielen liegt

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Grosse Alterspanne im Team ohne Einfluss auf die Arbeit. Guter Austausch.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Sehr fairer und offener Umgang. Wenig Hierarchien.

Arbeitsbedingungen

Sehr hippes Indutrieloft, welches ständig optimiert wird. Hohe Mitarbeitermitbestimmung.

Kommunikation

Extrem viele Möglichkeiten sich offen auszutauschen. Kritik erfolgt direkt und fair.

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Interessante Aufgaben

Sehr dynamische Entwicklung der Aufgaben statt starrer Routinen

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Die junge, dynamische und lockere Stimmung: Alle dutzen sich, es gibt eine flache Hierarchie und man kennt jeden. Sehr nette Kollegen und internationale Atmosphäre, dank Mitarbeitern aus unterschiedlichen Ländern, die viele verschiedene Sprachen können. Ich habe viel Freiraum und Eigenverantwortung für meine Arbeit. Gute Leistung wird anerkannt und belohnt. Team Events werden organisiert, damit alle sich kennenlernen.

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Büroräume werden langsam eng und laut, da viele neue Mitarbeiter eingestellt wurden.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Die Firma wächst sehr schnell und die neuen Kollegen müssen schnellstmöglich integriert werden. Das benötigt viele Bemühungen von den bestehenden Mitarbeitern, zusätzlich zur täglichen Arbeit.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Gutes offenes Klima mit viel Austausch

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Junges dynamisches Unternehmen, das immer auf der Suche nach innovativen Produkten ist.

Work-Life-Balance

Urlaub kann nach Wunsch genommen werden. Viel Verständnis für Familienbedürfnisse. Hohe Leistung & Flexibilität werden erwartet, aber man kriegt dafür auch viel Freiraum & Eigenverantwortung.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Viel Freiraum und Eigenverantwortung. Das Engagement der Mitarbeiter wird mit Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten/Job Enrichment anerkannt.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Gute & offene Arbeitsstimmung.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Ich bin selber über 45 und schätze es sehr mit jüngeren Kollegen zu arbeiten. Ich fühle mich dabei respektiert.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Zielorientierter Vorgesetzte mit vollem Engagement, der alle Mitarbeiter einbezieht. Gibt viel Freiraum.

Arbeitsbedingungen

Das IT-System hatte einige Schwäche, aber es wird gerade den Unternehmensbedürfnissen angepasst. Probleme werden ernst genommen und Lösungen werden gesucht.

Kommunikation

Es gibt regelmässige Team Calls, um alle aktuelle Projekte zu besprechen.

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Interessante Aufgaben

Start-up bedeutet auch viel Engagement: es wird erwartet, dass man viel und effizient arbeitet. Dafür wird es einem nie langweilig!