Once upon a time the ryd was amazing - now it's becoming unbearable!
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
The products, the employees passion
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Processes are broken, intransparent communication. An owner who does what he wants, treating some employees very unfriendly and talking in disrespectful manners.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Make it happy place again and start listening to your employees. They are the heart of rye and shouldn't be neglected. Focus on establishing a proper and company wide culture once again.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
After all its just about the colleagues. Their passion to make the already very good B2C app, even better, is it were it all comes together. But the surroundings and so to say "culture" (top-down mentality all the way, the owner(s) of ryd, really own, regulate, that not even a C-Level supervisor is able to prevent "lay-offs" - "cost optimization" driven as its best / worst), are shaping an odd situation. HR is following a closed door policy (not just because of Privacy Policies etc.), leading to a disruptive "corporate culture", remote coworkers are often "neglected" and not invited to the general Christmas Party. Etc. Agile ways of working, experimenting with new processes and constant adapting to ever and fast coming changes, were implemented quite well and were working and uplifting the teams mood´s. Across all departments and Teams improvements were identified and improved together - a living organism, but with almost or very least support from C-Level.
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ryd is creating it profits by selling fuel and car related services. Global players, shaping and leading several industries, i.e oil, payment services, car manufacturers, invest in ryd and its products. But also providing the possibility to use the ryd app for EV purposes.
Work-Life-Balance
Depending on signed working contract and the department applicants applied for, two, three, more than ten stories could be told. Being located in Munich or surrounding suburbs in reach of the main office, makes a huge difference if you compare it to the way of working remotely in Germany or other EU countries. The gap and how processes work or better to say, dont work, is very big and often not clear to ryd´s employees. Depending on the position, seniority, department and its supervisors and level of visibility of employees, work life balance ranges from very flexible to direct non-sense, disrespectful accusations by interim CEO, CIO aka Owner (all at the same time) of the company, including statements on sick days and its numbers, neglecting HO rules and regulations and general feedback that performance doesnt fit HIS expectations.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
If the owner of rye likes you, a career path can be gone. Otherwise a career path is hard to reach. Each employee has a budget to spend on a yearly basis to expand their knowledge.
Gehalt/Benefits
Unfortunately, salaries are below industry average and not a good example a value driven company enviroment. Positive is a 50€ fueling voucher every month and thats it. Employees are not "re-imbursed" properly for the daily passion and lifetime invested. ryd´s focus is neither, to retain the current workforce, with possible and well working HR-tools or approaches, appraisals etc, in order to create a working environment which feels good, is sustainable and make people to give all their best, all the time. If salary increases are approved and if you are on the boards list, an increase of 1% is already a big win. Decisions on, who will get an increase and how much, are based on an intransparent process.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
Hard to say, depends on individual and personal perspectives, what is suitable and what not and how companies make profit.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
As good and as strong as it can / should be. With the current managerial "style", an ongoing and very often contradictive decision making process (above Team-Level), more and more people will leave. Only if the current situation will change to the better for current employees and only if, current team spirits hold tight and all Teams stay strong and continue to believe in each other and dont loose faith in what they provide and for whom. Ryders will need to overcome the ever returning waves of demotivating, disrespectful and outdated ways of working. People related processes are biased by oldschool mindsets, of current Owner(s) and Chairman(s) and other stakeholders.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Its all about respect and thats what ryders live and act on each and every day.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Differs among each department. There are good ones and very bad ones. No general and common approach, missing company shared and lived vision and no establishment of cross team values. The amount of true mentors and leaders / supervisors is very very little. This all results in decreasing trust in the management and causing number of fluctuation rise. Ineffective and weird "guidance" from HR , combined with missing support by the management to embrace and support change, cutting costs and bad cross team communication, creates space for bad and ineffective leadership. On top, C-Level mentality, where "everybody" is repraceable (nowadays by AI).
Arbeitsbedingungen
An ongoing decay of a great feeling(s), driven by co-workers, loving and living what they did, when founded until Corona hit the planet - during Corona, head and meaningless HR and Investor / Owner driven decisons taken. Result, culture was gone and circumstances became more and more foggy.
Kommunikation
Within the Teams (all Departments) on a pretty good level. Respectful, open, transparent, to the point. Well established and desiganted communication channels (Slack, Confluence, JIRA etc.) Across Teams its getting more complicated and often very complex. Depending on the topic, software requirements, accounting & billing, marketing, product, you name it, its a very very wild and crazy ryd.
Gleichberechtigung
Its a cultural paradise (people from over 20 nations work at ryd - even ryders, where countries are fighting a war currently, work together in peace and harmony). Colleagues treat each other very respectful. Religious beliefs, cultural backgrounds dont matter!
Interessante Aufgaben
The products and the peole, improving them on a daily basis, are simply amazing. Iteresting tasks / projects can happen on a daily basis.