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Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

The mission. It was a nice feeling to support it and that is why I signed up for it in the first place.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

They should create a atmosphere of opportunity and inclusion. I know, they try from high up, but there are too many people already working there, who won't allow this.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

I found it very hard to work there. I saw a lot of lone warriors and being helpful and supportive was rare. Instead constant pressure created anxieties and bad behaviour between workers.

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Kollegenzusammenhalt

Rare, but existing. Most people mind their own business for reasons.

Gleichberechtigung

There is a huge difference between what management wants the company to be and what it is actually like.

Interessante Aufgaben

The best part of working here. The mission is great. You can really luck out on the topic you work here.

Wofür möchtest du deinen Arbeitgeber im Umgang mit der Corona-Situation loben?

Lunch

Wo siehst du Chancen für deinen Arbeitgeber mit der Corona-Situation besser umzugehen?

Read through my points.

Wie kann dich dein Arbeitgeber im Umgang mit der Corona-Situation noch besser unterstützen?

Fire managers who are blatantly incompetent. Hire more business-minded people. The rest you can read in my comments.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Friendly among staff. The company has also created a hierarchical structure that is inappropriate for a company of that size and there exists a culture of micromanagement.

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Karriere/Weiterbildung

Training took the form of time for Coursera and Datacamp. The performance reviews were not tied to salary and promotion, so you have to book an extra time for that conversation.
The company is hierarchical and looking to increase the hierarchy, which is not good for young hopefuls.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Hire/firing due to inability to formulate the right hiring requirements is not very socially responsible and destructive to the lives of those duped into leaving jobs and other opportunities for a misrepresented job.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

The lower staff are friendly with each other.

A lot of people left the department while I was there. Higher management tried to sell their constant hiring as growth, but according to my observations, it was trying to cover the hemorrhaging of employees.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

I experienced the worst management in my two-decade career. My manager had shockingly poor ability to comprehend organizational needs and skills at the most basic level, understand what skills are need in their team and showed absolute lack of ability to design a vetting process.

Worst micromanagement I ever experienced in my career. The worst onboarding process I have seen in my career. Asking someone to just read the company Wiki is not onboarding! I got the impression that this lack of proper management was due to the immaturity and lack of experience within the managers I met. HR, as I experienced them, displayed below standard service when it came to standard German HR practices. I needed to remind them at least 3 times until I received documents they were obliged to send me.

The fact that manager(s) are allowed to act like the way I experienced and still keep their jobs is extremely telling about what executives and leadership define as acceptable behavior. This type of behavior can only thrive if terrible management and negative leadership are either taught, tolerated or both.

Gleichberechtigung

My department head spoke German to Germans and English to foreigners, regardless of the English level of the Manager or the German level of the foreigner. This led to misunderstandings that could have been avoided if I were allowed to speak German despite being a foreigner.

Other colleagues were happy that I could speak German.

The language asymmetry sent a strong message to me as a foreigner that I would not be seen as an equal by the Germans.

Interessante Aufgaben

Mission driven-company. Interesting market.

The tools I saw were not at the industry standard for usability and process efficiency. The only reason that this way of working was accepted by the higher management and the team members themselves, in my opinion, is that the staffers are so junior and underpaid.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Die Kollegen - und tägliches Essen

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Siehe oben.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Das Board komplett auswechseln, Kompetenz zulassen, fähige Leute als Manager holen

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Druck von oben ohne Grund, absolut unrealistische verkaufsziele, die immer weiter nach oben geschraubt werden bei sinkender Provision

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Karriere/Weiterbildung

No chance - es sei denn, man legt sich den Managern zu Füßen

Gehalt/Benefits

Am Anfang ok, dann immer schlechter wegen ausbeuterischer Provisionsmodelle

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Was ist das ??

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Ohne meine tollen Kollegen hätte ich NIE so lange durchgehalten - Danke euch allen :)

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Inakzeptabel, respektlos, von Neid und Druck geprägt

Arbeitsbedingungen

Alte Geräte, staubige, enge Räume...

Kommunikation

Es gibt regelmäßig all hands Meetings, aber dort wird alles rosa-rot dargestellt!

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Initial idea.

Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Everything.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Be like Sci-Hub and drop the ads.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Some colleagues are actually nice to work with. But they're mainly in the lower staff.

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Work-Life-Balance

Not that bad, as long as you commit yourself to a really underpaid job with no career progress. Take it only if you're really desperate.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

No description needed. There isn't. Actually, you will feel dumber after you join the company.

Gehalt/Benefits

Free lunch (which they make you pay for at the end of the month).

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Absolutely none.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Some are still friends, but those are mainly in the lower staff tier. Upper management and team leads will try to destroy your career, if they need to, for their own, personal advantage. This is mainly because they were never meant to be managers, they don't know how to be managers, and now they're clinging with nails and teeth to that small time, fake power, position. Beware.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Kings of the world, right? That's why they can never leave ResearchGate. Real life will slap them in the face and won't feed their egos.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

This could be never ending but to name a few: managers work on a hire-fire basis because of their inexperience and huge egos; some old employees opened several cases in court against some people in the company because of extremely unacceptable behavior (in all tiers); totally unexperienced; their behavior is so toxic towards whoever is not in their "friend group" that it almost makes you sad to see how small minded and pety some of those people are. They live within a fake bubble of status and ego while they, themselves, are extremely underpaid and are working towards disgrace.

Arbeitsbedingungen

No A/C in summer. The offices look cool on the outside but then again, the sign is directly proportional to the C-level ego. Just a fake cover.

Kommunikation

There isn't any. If you come from another - established - company you will really struggle with the pre-historical meetings and lack of communication processes. People are very unexperienced, especially managers.

Gleichberechtigung

Foreigners are known to receive different treatment in the company. For no reason, if you're disliked by someone, they will find a way to fire you, or make you quit - either by bullying or by installing fake PDP reviews.

Interessante Aufgaben

Really pre-historical technology. In AdTech ResearchGate is the laughing toy of the big boys. Step aside and let the others do their job.

Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich

Gute und freundliche Arbeitsatmosphäre. Viele starke Leute, guter Umgang miteinander. Macht Spaß, hier zu arbeiten.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Das Klima ist super.

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Work-Life-Balance

Arbeitszeiten normal, viel Rücksicht bei familiären Angelegenheiten.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Menschlich und fachlich super.

Arbeitsbedingungen

Das Büro könnte etwas leiser sein.