Hoped it to be a dream work place - was disappointed.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Literally all mentioned feedback points were raised internally from the get go - company then acted like I never said a word and considers this review "bad manners". Unfortunately, if you're interviewing for this company, this already says a lot so my advice is: make sure you (because they will post-hoc rationalize your fit) are 110% confident in your fit, otherwise you won't be happy here.
EDIT 01/29/21: Having seen the response to my rating, I couldn’t be more happy about it. A toxic leadership that cancels all feedback points as “baseless” while taking no responsibility? Who would have thought? My advice for interviewees: Pick a couple of my points and ask HR and leadership separately about them. Listen for differences, check the degree of denial/acceptance and see how they talk about previous employees.
EDIT 05/28/21: Company addressed this review internally and asked current employees to create good-to-perfect ratings so this one gets washed away. Couldn’t care less but what does this tell you?
Kommunikation
Cross-team meetings are considered important, which is good. Open-End meeting mindset (unless leadership has a hard cut) leads to ruined work and day structure. Meetings tend to become non-productive workshops, lacking anything but "Look at X again" action items. Leadership likes to have monologues we listened to last week already. "Leave it be, none of your business" can be heard every now and then. Little meeting structure, despite starting with "what's our goal", is funny.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Colleagues didn't raise apparent issues directly. Tech guys are skilled and cool. Never got to meet any of them, really.
Work-Life-Balance
No onboarding plan. No onboarding priorities or milestones. Everyone expects you to dive right into everything, yesterday. Overtime is expected and not compensated in full. Colleagues will report you leaving at 5pm even if you arrived at 7am. Vacation can be taken whenever (according to communication).
Vorgesetztenverhalten
You will receive face slaps for fun. You will be embarrassed and shouted at if it suits. You will have to believe in a MLM coaching scheme. Other than that, potential to be a good but moody and feisty leadership.
EDIT 12/19/20: Leadership accepted and then declined my request to receive feedback upon reading this review.
Interessante Aufgaben
Onboarding started with revamping the process landscape, followed by an addition to the tech stack. Deprioritized early and back to calls all day guidance.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Joined very soon after contract signing. Haven't had received hardware yet. Had to work out of conference room because rooms are noisy and walls are thin. Every now and then, you can hear leadership badmouth someone who's absent in the hallway.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
No COVID-19 policy. Mandatory to be in-office. Lunch room is overcrowded.
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
Salary and readiness to invest is good.
Image
Employees are so brainwashed of their own leadership culture that receiving a slap in the face is something nice. Marketing is okay with being referred to by their gender. It's weird.