Political cesspool. Employees are not valued by their technical skills but seniority.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
You are trained to be a cooperate s7t since day 1
Image
Bad according to merchants, bad according to sales.
Work-Life-Balance
Bad managerial decisions are made, now low hanging people must squat and work 996 to compensate those decisions, so your manager will look good.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Absolutely no one cares about your career building. Managing up is the only thing people care about it here. Poor management from top to bottom. All career development tools HR invented becomes a formality. Your manager will ask you to fill those forms invented to "help you develop your career" then move on. Expects no collaboration there.
Gehalt/Benefits
Salary and compensation in general are good, because that's the only thing they can use to still hire someone with skills. Not worth the mental health damage if you ask me. Skilled and experienced people usually churn in a year.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Almost all good colleagues have left, especially those with experience at large organizations. The company continues operates like a start-up and only new-grads and start-up folks joined during acquisitions have stayed here. The level of chaos are kept intentional rather than by accident. Any attempts to improve the situation will be seen by as a threat to the existing power structure, unless you are part of the "bro club".
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Managing up is all you need. Sucking is a must.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Depends on which office you are in. Some are good, some are bad.
Kommunikation
Terrible. They are extremely biased towards face-to-face communications, to the extent that written communications are non-existent and many managers don't even know how to write a complete sentence on Slack, and breaking changes happens every day without announcement.
Gleichberechtigung
HR advocates equal treatment. In reality, a certain demographic holds all the power to decide yes or no, from technical decisions to evaluate "who's good and who's not". Female employees tend to get boring and grunt work. Competent female engineers tend to left quite fast. Now "white bros" finally get a reason to claim its meritocracy.