Great product and vision, strong growth, family-like culture and lots of potential for personal development
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Product-focused company, very tech-enabled and mission-driven. You can see the value that you are creating firsthand in the app, user reviews, and user growth. Therefore it offers a quite rewarding working environment.
Image
The image is very good in general since the company is following a good purpose and helping students. But employer branding could be improved, if you compare it to other VC-funded startups.
Work-Life-Balance
Compared to other VC-funded startups very healthy Work-Life-Balance. No face time culture. Founders have the highest expectations to themselves and usually spend the most time in the office while not expecting this from everyone.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Performance-based promotion culture. Real skills, output, and drive matter more than on-paper qualifications (Obviously since founders don't have on-paper qualifications themselves). Employee participation is possible at a certain level.
Gehalt/Benefits
Salary is not above average but also not bad.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
Not really a spray-and-pray money behavior, like what could be seen at some growth startups in the past years. Investments are being thought through and should serve a specific outcome.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Very family-like culture with a focus on team events like the summer event or regular beach volley ball sessions, workations and so on
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Hard to say since there are not really older colleagues. However, knowledge and experience are appreciated a lot.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Really worshipping and "on eye level".
Arbeitsbedingungen
Super nice office, great location, well equipment. Slightly above post-Series A standard.
Kommunikation
Efficient communication mainly over the typical communication channels - slack etc.
Gleichberechtigung
Founders will never argue based on their seniority or origin. Therefore a quite authentic equality-focused working environment.
Interessante Aufgaben
One of the few successful Social network players with origin in Germany/ Europe. Therefore quite an exciting environment to witness and quite unique in Germany's rater SaaS-driven startup scene. The vast amount of user data and product first approach open up many interesting tasks and working areas.