Promising opportunity destroyed by immature management & deceiving company culture
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
- Competitive Salary within the Market
- Some smart, helpful and nice colleagues (until they leave)
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
- Very inexperienced & young middle management (first comes first serves, people who were at Spendesk in the first year are in management positions - often with clear lack of good leadership skills & knowledge)
- Internally people refer to the middle management as the "mafia" - management by fear, no trust, micro-management & highly political: There is a huge gap and communication problem between the “old” & “new” employees (first class vs. 2nd class) - also because they just started to hire HR professionals very recently and still don’t know much about successful people & culture processes
- Bad & arbitrary decisions leads to employees cheating the system/numbers and advising other people to do it, especially in sales
- High turnover: In a short time of period a lot of people left due to bad culture and management
- Fake culture: They don’t execute the culture they advertise, e.g. they have the value "ownership" but ask people in sales to work like a robot with no autonomy. As a “human” resource you execute top-down commands. They tell you how to structure your agenda hour by hour
- For the management it's more important to serve their ego instead of making the company successful
Verbesserungsvorschläge
- replace the inexperienced young middle management with more experienced managers, or train new managers better
- hire an experienced people and culture department (the current one is a HR department with no knowledge how to ensure happy employees), who can really execute the culture you want to have
- Re-evaluate the sales process which kills the motivation of smart people who bring in great results but not the activity (concentrate on the "what", not only the "how")
- Value bottom-up feedback: Ask for it all the time and act on it, so that your valuable employees are not afraid to speak up and change the status quo