Favorite work place for passionate software craftsman
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
The Digital:Lab is living software crafsmanship like I have never seen it in any other company. We are doing Extreme Programming, including nearly 100% Pair Programming, which is perfect for learning and knowledge sharing and shared responsibility across the team. Test-Driven Development allows us to confidently deploy new features to production multiple times a week and collect immediate feedback from the users.
In previous jobs I got piles of paper specification to implement, here the product manager collects collects the problems to solve from the business side, and the team designs, implements, tests and delivers the solution. It's working like in a lean startup, but with the market share and ressources of Europes largest car manufacturer.
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Administrative processes at Volkswagen outside the Digital Lab are typically enterprise-like slow and heavy, luckily we are quite independent from that and hardly have to deal with that.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Volkswagen should ramp up way more places like the Digital Lab Berlin... which they actually do.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Flat hierarchy, autonomous product teams with designers, developers and product managers collaborating to create great products. The office manager trusts in the teams to deliver the best possible outcome, no overwatching or blaming involved.
Work-Life-Balance
Fixed working hours (8:30-17:00) and no home office, so that the whole team is available to collaborate. No extra hours and no calls/messages after five.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Beatiful rooms with startup flair, cutting edge hardware, free snacks and drinks. Noise is an issue though.
Interessante Aufgaben
Developing and launching new products, with latest technologies and in small teams. The developers are responsible for all technical decisions, no constraints from managers, no 'architecs', no constraints from outside the team.