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

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.

Gleichberechtigung

If you exclude the favourites, women were treated way worse than men, as a general rule. There was even one guy from the management team who used to spend his day at the office checking women's derrières in the most disgusting way possible. The company loves to publicize that half of the management positions are undertaken by women, but that figure was never true, completely made up. At it's best, real, C-level management had two women and five men. Even counting middle managers in, which they did because the share I just mentioned didn't sound that good, it never reached 50%. The customer care team were virtually all women, with one or two exceptions, the tech team was literally all men, like 20 or something. Women on average made way less than men, and all the company had to say about it was "every company has a customer care team full of women and a tech team full of men". Definitely illuminating.

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

Awesome workplace, many team activities

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

None

Verbesserungsvorschläge

none

Arbeitsatmosphäre

It´s lots of fun to work here and hard-working people who know what they want from their career will feel themselves like home.

Work-Life-Balance

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Everyone who want to learn and evolve is welcome here

Gehalt/Benefits

Good paying

Kollegenzusammenhalt

In general very good.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Everyone is at the same level here

Arbeitsbedingungen

Good working conditions and many benefits offered by the company.

Kommunikation

A good overall communication, if you ask for help you immediately get it.

Interessante Aufgaben

yes

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

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.

Gleichberechtigung

Top

Interessante Aufgaben

There is no place for boredom

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

salary

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Where to start? It anyway doesn't matter because nobody listens. If they make surveys they actually give us a feeling that the results of the surveys are not true. If management doesn't agree with the results nothing gets improved.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

From outside it looks like a happy family but once you start working there you realize that almost nobody is happy, there is no work-life balance and people slowly start not to care. People come and go, there was recently a wave of several people who left at the similar time which says a lot about this company

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As mentioned before, it all seems perfect on the outside and during the interview, but actually is not working at all, it's chaotic and people are leaving often.

Work-Life-Balance

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Company is trying to do some social projects, but in my opinion they should better focus on other things and do this when the company is running smoothly.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

There are possibilities (not many of course as it is a small company) but older colleagues get it simply based on the time they spent in the company. There is no interview process, we just hear one day that from certain date our colleague X will get a higher position/move to another department.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Colleagues are mostly against each other and talking behind each other's back, which is very sad considering this is a small company which is trying to have family-like atmosphere. Open fights are not unusual but not often either. Unfortunately, team spirit cannot be forced.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

People are usually welcomed and accepted into a group from the beginning. Everyone hangs out together which is nice and positive. When it comes to promotion, older colleagues get promoted based on the fact that they are longer in the company and not based on their skills, which leaves the rest of us unhappy, especially if we also worked hard and have better skills. Bear in mind that the company exists for a bit more than a year, if you don't count the owner and few colleagues who started the company with him some years before (but they are already on higher positions anyway, again, not based on their skills). so even being longer in the company means that someone is there only few months more.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Management is trying to involve everyone into decision making process, not realizing that not everyone has the knowledge, interest or skills to do so. Very often management is against each other or telling different stories and the rest of the company doesn't understand what needs to be done and how. The goals are not set, and even if they are, they are most of the time unrealistic (for example, we need to answer customer's emails within 2 hours, which is not anyhow realistic and certainly not the case in other companies). Nobody understands where we are headed, we only work day by day without clear guidelines, procedures..there is nothing, so everyone can do what they please.

Arbeitsbedingungen

This needs to improve as well. For a long time the office is cramped, there is no space for new people, IT system isn't working properly, computers and systems are crashing often and even the printer (there is only one!) works sporadically. Software that is used is difficult and not user friendly. Company is trying to improve this, but maybe they should have invested more money in the beginning instead of wasting it on things that don't work and buying new ones now.

Kommunikation

There is some kind of communication but it goes through many different channels and not everyone is updated at the same time. As there are almost no written processes (yet) some people are doing what they think is the best, and the rest of us have to correct their mistakes.

Gehalt/Benefits

People are actually overpaid. Unbelievable but true. For the positions that they do most of them are overpaid if compared to other Berlin companies. They try to motivate people by good salary and contract but that unfortunately doesn't make employees loyal if every day they come to work they feel undervalued, exhausted and their day is ruined.

Interessante Aufgaben

Everybody is doing everything and it's one big chaos. You are asked to do things that are not anyhow part of your job and for which you don't have adequate skills.

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

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.

Gleichberechtigung

Mitarbeiter werden nach Leistung, nicht Geschlecht bewertet.

Interessante Aufgaben

Sehr dynamische Entwicklung der Aufgaben statt starrer Routinen