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By far the worse startup that I have worked in 2 key areas: people and product.

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Ex-Angestellte/r oder Arbeiter/inHat bis 2020 im Bereich Marketing / Produktmanagement bei WunderCar Mobility Solutions GmbH gearbeitet.

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Out of office kind of things (like lunches) were very nice.

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Product and management.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Invest in real product teams and TRUST them (read Inspired if you don't know where to start). Create a culture of customer-centricity and using data to make decisions.

Kommunikation

Literally every week at the all-hands meeting, the leadership would say "we are winning against the competitors and we won't raise money this year because we are full of cash". It was never clear in what dimension this "winning" was, but still... COVID19 crisis hit and just a week after closing the office they fired or put on furlough 30% of the company (around 50 people). The reason was that the mobility sector was super affected and they needed to save the cash. Fair point. But literally a week after that downsizing, Wunder announced they had bought another company (wait...wasn't money an issue?). I know for a fact that that acquisition was not supposed to happen before 6 months in the future. They prioritized buying the company (probably at a discounted price because of the crisis), than being fair to the people that had trusted them - people that had left good jobs and moved from all around the world a couple of months ago.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Full of so called "seniors" that could not work with one another. Every day there was bickering for the smallest of things. Any change, even the smallest ones, was completely impossible to even test it out, even if it was a type 2 decision (easily reversible), such as adding a column in the kanban board just to test something. I experienced my fair share of meetings where no one was listening to one another, just talking over each other and getting nowhere.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

One of the values from Wunder is "Trust", but this is purely aspirational. I have seen many examples of a lack of trust, such as one engineering lead called a meeting with a product development team to say that they (and only them) would start using Scrum. He didn't mention why, it was just how it was going to be. He completely undermined the team and the team lead without any explanation. The team kind of rolled with it, and the first sprint was a success. But by the end of the first sprint, 3 members of the exec team came to the team at lunchtime without warning and announced that the team was being merged to another and some people would go work in another product. So the original merged team would be back to... kanban :) again, no explanation was offered.

Interessante Aufgaben

Hands down the worst product development process I ever witnessed. People designed (and argued about designs) without speaking to users/customers/prospects or using any data to prove or disprove a decision.
There was no semblance of solving the user problems, it was completely "feature factory" mode. Example: there was a particular feature that was super complex to build and by the research we made with sales and customers, it was not the most important feature. There were many more pressing things that would help to move the sales needle. Why did we keep investing in building that feature? Because "it was promised to an executive we would deliver that feature". Seriously, everyone knew it was not the right thing, but since the executive wanted the feature, that was what we were going to build.
The product work was so bad that it was easy to spot in the results: the "cash cow" product that sustained the company was acquired when they acquired another company. The other 8 products were all money losers.

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Alejandro SpickerVP, People

Thank you for taking the time to provide us feedback about your experience.

Unfortunately, the COVID-19 crisis was not something tha anyone was prepared for and it very quickly had a negative impact on many companies. We, like many others, had to make quick, financially driven and difficult decisions that impacted our team. By putting some team members on Kurzarbeit we have been able to ensure long-term stability for our company while allowing employees to still receive a percentage of their income to sustain them through this difficult time. This in no way was an easy decision for us and as things begin to stabilize we have already begun to bring some of these team members back.

We appreciate your feedback regarding the communication of new working methodologies, team structures, and product development strategies. Our People Leaders, with the support of our Internal Communications Manager and People Success Managers, are working actively to provide our teams with more context and understanding into the decision-making process and team structures.

We’re sorry to hear that you experienced conflict within your team throughout the development process. We would encourage anyone else who may be experiencing something similar to provide feedback to the team/team member about this, or reach out to your Team Lead/People Success Manager for support. We are rolling out a Feedback Workshop to encourage team members to provide open feedback to one another to avoid these types of situations in the future.

Thank you again for taking the time to provide us these insights about your experience.

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