PowerUs

Bewertungen

Verbesserungsvorschläge

The founder duo and the overall leadership team need to be reconsidered.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

The work atmosphere in the sales department was unparalleled. Unfortunately, the performance and incredible successes of the sales department were always downplayed. The “successes” of other departments were consistently valued and celebrated, even though in other companies, they would have been considered significant losses.
I never felt like a part of the team in total.

Work-Life-Balance

What is outstanding is the opportunity to do home office and workation!
Unfortunately, the commercial founder deliberately ensures that working hours are strictly monitored, and messages being sent during weekends, etc.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

No opportunity for professional growth.
There is no one to learn from, and no chance to attain a higher title.

Gehalt/Benefits

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

The air conditioning runs while the windows are open, a massive office space is available, but less than half of it is used—yet it is still heated and lit.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

The team cohesion in the sales department is outstanding, but it is nonexistent with other departments.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Catastrophic leadership behavior, including micromanagement. Decision-making processes are neither transparent nor rational.
Goals are unattainable, and failure to achieve them is carried on the backs of employees, who pay for the leadership’s incompetence through their lost bonuses.

Kommunikation

It is often said that communication is the most important thing. At PowerUs, however, it’s more about pretending to communicate.
The teams communicate extremely poorly with each other, relying on countless tools that often lead to miscommunication or go nowhere.
The worst communication, however, is with the founder responsible for the commercial department.

Interessante Aufgaben

The work was highly repetitive, as the product is straightforward and has little to do with SaaS.
Simple product that is not really evolving and simple customers.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

lockere Atmosphäre, nette Kollegen, cooles Büro, gutes Produkt

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Vergütung im Vertrieb + unrealistische Zielvorgaben

Verbesserungsvorschläge

- Strukturen schaffen
- weniger Involvement der Gründer
- es genügt nicht einfach locker zu sagen "wir haben einen Fehler gemacht" und keine großartigen Veränderungen anzustoßen.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

schickes Büro, Home office möglich, aber nicht bei allen gern gesehen, es werden Überstunden erwartet

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dafür dass es PowerUs schon eine Weile gibt und sie erfolgreich sind, relativ unbekannt

Work-Life-Balance

man sollte keine 40h - Stunden-Woche erwarten...

Karriere/Weiterbildung

man kann über das Portal Soft-Skills-Kurse machen...

Gehalt/Benefits

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Kollegen sind top!!

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

gab keine älteren Kollegen

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Transparenz und gute Kommunikation

Kommunikation

Die Gründer scheinen keine klare Strategie zu verfolgen bzw. sie zu kommunizieren. Viele Experimente, die auf Kosten der Mitarbeiter ausgetragen werden

Gleichberechtigung

gut

Interessante Aufgaben

der Vertrieb besteht bei PowerUs daraus fast schon wahllos Unternehmen anzurufen (Kaltaquise)

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Feedback culture is well established and very useful for the individuals and for the company in general

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I believe this company is going to be one of the most well known companies in Germany and in the world in the future

Gehalt/Benefits

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Everybody is helpful for your onboarding process

Arbeitsbedingungen

Working 100% remotely

Kommunikation

From the top managers to bottom, you can communicate with anyone without any hesitation

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Salary & most of the colleagues

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Culture, Product and Leadership Team.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Hire more woman. Change the leadership team. Get a marketing and a decent design team to change everything. Fix the toxic gym bro culture. And most importantly: Trust the people you hired.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

It went downhill quite fast. In the beginning it was a nice atmosphere but it changed dramatically in the last months. People got fired with weird reasons or left as they saw everything unfolding.

The leadership team tried to "fix" everything with communication guidelines or performance checks but made everything worse.

Some teams at PowerUs are so male-dominated that the only talks you'll hear at the coffee machine will be around protein shakes and how to grow your biceps. Some company events feel like Sweet-16 parties, where there testosteron driven contests like the "PowerUs-Triathlon", which is basically 3 ways how to drink your beer in one go.

All in all it's not a great atmosphere and they definitely have to grow up there.

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No one knows what PowerUs really is and if you're visiting their landing pages you don't quite know what they're doing and it looks more like a fishy scam company (even users have this feeling)

The product itself looks and feels like an outdated university project so that you're not really proud to say you're working (or have worked) for this company.

Work-Life-Balance

It's quite ok with home office but the chaos in some teams will drive you crazy.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

There are no career plans or ladders, no clear expectations on roles so that you'll be a bit lost in your initial role. Promotions feel like they only happen, when a manager is personally liking someone.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

The greater team at PowerUs is full of awesome people and everyone supports each other.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

The leadership team at PowerUs (Founders, Chiefs and Head Ofs) are a total mess in every regard. You can really feel that PowerUs is the first and only leadership experience for all of them.

Some of them are unexperienced but ok to work with while there are also persons where it's impossible to communicate and work with, as the only thing they accept is their process that they have written down in their notion doc and everything is doesn't matter to them.

If you're not working like some of the "gurus" there, you'll mostly getting fired, despite being told the opposite a few days earlier.

Arbeitsbedingungen

You'll get the technical equipment you need but if it's more expensive it will be hard to pitch to the responsible person. To find the person who is responsible for anything tech related is a challenge itself.

The office is quite nice but is already getting too small for the company. There are only 2 phone booths and 2 conference rooms, so that it's really hard to have meetings when you're in the office.

The equipment in the office is quite ok (standard 24inch monitor and furniture from lendis) but all in all everything there is quite lackluster.

Kommunikation

It's pretty bad. People are afraid to speak up since the leadership team introduced the communication guidelines and some were told to not challenge something any longer.

There are a lot of pointless meetings and some higher up people seem to be obsessed with Notion docs, so that some times you'll spent a lot of hours a week going through pointless notion docs and strange processes that the leadership team read on LinkedIn or Medium.

Gehalt/Benefits

Gleichberechtigung

Only man and not a single woman in the leadership team. Toxic gym bro culture is also not really helping.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Everything, there is nothing bad. You have a lot of work life balance, caring management that is also really transparent and fast in their communications. Team Leads empower you to become the best version of yourself :)

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There is nothing wrong about it. I still love working here

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Keep on beeing like that, it can be hard to keep the spirit if the whole team grows, but I am pretty sure, that you will manage that :)

Arbeitsatmosphäre

It is great, I do work remote from home, but there is an awesome office which I love to visit for a weeks every few weeks

Work-Life-Balance

Completely respected, you can schedule your whole day very much in advance already, also possible to have appointments at the doctor within the working time without any problems

Gehalt/Benefits

Kollegenzusammenhalt

We all support each other and empower ourselves at any time. Superior

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Is always good, transparent and respectful. Always there to answer questions and motivating you a lot.

Kommunikation

Could not be better, completely transparent and fast

Gleichberechtigung

It is sad that we have that 3 negative reviews, that are not fair and not correct. you are not being discriminated if you're "not white" or not male and it even does not matter if you are german or not. Some of the colleagues that are here the longest are not german, nor living in germany. Sad to read this :(

Interessante Aufgaben

Tasks are very interesting, there is also a lot of space to bring in your own ideas and you can always test stuff. So you don't have to follow the process a 100% :)

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Flexible working hours, opportunity to work mostly remotely

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Feedback and transparency at all times

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Everybody is hyped! PowerUs has a great impact on the lives of workers and therefore being hyped is more than justified.

Work-Life-Balance

Family has high priority, normal full-time working times, flexible hours, more holidays than in other companies, easy to request vacation

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Getting constant feedback on how to improve, knowing what to focus on and what can be improved, so all in all great opportunity to grow in business and personal areas

Gehalt/Benefits

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Most people arrive with public transport, pro remote-work (up to 100%), mobility budget for public transport, business goals contribute to support solar energy

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Teams are growing and working together closely

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Conflicts are always taken seriously, solved in a constructive, fair and open way shared with everybody

Arbeitsbedingungen

Very cool office space, sometimes quite high noise level due to electrical facilities and meetings, there are only a few meeting rooms

Kommunikation

Clear communication and frequent updates every week