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36 Mitarbeiter:innen haben diesen Arbeitgeber mit durchschnittlich 3,1 Punkten auf einer Skala von 1 bis 5 bewertet.
Nice brand interesting product, I liked many of the leadership people (founder for example)
There were changes at the end at the engineering management, that felt a bit off, but I couldn't really say since I left the company (for working in another city, not because anything was wrong with it)
I liked it.
Very reasonable. Result oriented.
I don't know if there is a clear career progression, education was not something particularly emphasized.
I think its below average but I guess its because you have to negotiate well.
Very good, however after I resigned my engineering manager who we had a good relation kind of ghosted my friendly requests to follow-up and recommendation on LinkedIn, but we have to remember we are not always friends with our colleagues. Still I keep in touch with quite a few people and overall great spirit all the way from the top.
100%. Loved the engineering management, and my product manager as well was amazing. However there were changes in the technical leadership when I left so I couldn't vouch for that.
Good.
It was always very good and respectful. Startup style, which I also like. I just put 4 stars because maybe the inter-team communication could have been better, but thats just because developers are not so good at communication in general, not specific to Xentral.
Yes, in my case I had the freedom to make real impact (or at least thats what I felt) and working on the product is interesting
Homeoffice, Gehalt
- Wie mit den Mitarbeitern umgegangen wird
- Schlechte Kommuniaktion
- Interne Bedenken werden klein geredet
- Verhalten der Führungsebene
- Fehlende Strategie
Seit einiger Zeit ist die Arbeitsatmosphäre immer weiter in den Keller gegangen. Viele Mitarbeiter wurden gekündigt (mit teilweise sehr fragwürdigen Aktionen) und genauso viele kündigen von selbst. Massenhafte Umstellungen werden unternommen ohne, dass man deren Konsequenzen genauer analysiert. Man verspricht sich von KI die Lösung für alles zu sein. Sehr viele Mitarbeiter sind unzufrieden. Wird jedoch vom Management intern schöngeredet . Bei vielen herrscht die Devise: "Mal abwarten und nach einem neuen Job umschauen".
Je nach Position unterschiedlich
Der Zusammenhalt zwischen den Kollegen ist gut. Viele Hilfsbereite Kollegen.
Stark abhängig. Viele gute Vorgesetzte wurden/haben gekündigt. Viele Personen wurden in Führungspositionen gesteckt die keinerlei Führungsverantwortung haben sollten.
Büros sind leer.
Intern wird sich vom Management selbst regelmäßig auf die Schulter geklopft wie toll die Kommunikation ist. Allerdings wird klar, dass die vermeintliche offene Kommunikation mehr Schein als sein ist. Viele Informationen erreichen einen deutlich früher, oder nur über den Flurfunk. Jeder der 1 + 1 zusammenzählen kann weiß, dass oft Halbwahrheiten erzählt werden. Das bestätigt sich natürlich innerhalb kurzer Zeit von selbst. Sich selbst für offene Kommunikation zu beweihräuchern und dann den Mitarbeitern ganz direkt Sachen zu verschweigen ist schon ein starkes Ding.
Stark Abhängig von der Position
Leider echt nicht so viel.
Wie schon gesagt, behandelt die Mitarbeitenden erstmal wie Menschen, dann könnt ihr euch auf KI,KI,KI fokussieren.
Liebes Leadership-Team,
statt, dass ihr euch in euren Strukturen verfängt und denkt, dass KI euch retten wird, denkt bitte zuerst an die wichtigste Ressource: Die Mitarbeitenden, die teilweise unfreiwillig, aber auch freiwillig gegangen sind. Das Leadership scheint leider nicht richtig kompetent zu sein, da sie nicht wirklich wissen, in welche Richtung es gehen soll.
Leider ist die Arbeitsatmosphäre seit mindestens Ende 2025 negativ. Viele Mitarbeitende wurden gekündigt, um auf KI zu setzen, es ist nicht klar, was das Zielbild ist und das Leadership Team ist nicht transparent und die Mitarbeitenden werden nicht mit dem nötigen Respekt begegnet.
Als Werkstudent:in ist es ok. Sonst aber nichts besonderes.
Bei Offsites usw. Train-First.
Eine der einzigen positiven Punkte waren die netten und sehr kompetenten Kolleg:innen.
Leider Katastrophe, gerade auf VP-Level oder im Leadership werden andere vorgeschickt, um Entscheidungen zu kommunizieren oder es wird gar nicht kommuniziert. Das ist leider sehr respektlos und von oben herab behandelt.
Homeoffice ist ebenfalls das einzig Positive.
Nicht vorhanden, als teilweise sehr viele Mitarbeitende gekündigt wurden, gab es keine richtige Erklärung. Mein Vorgesetzter wurde gekündigt und ich wurde alleine stehen gelassen. Erneut hier Leadership war wirklich intransparent.
IT-Abteilung hat so gut wie keine weiblichen Stimmen mehr.
KI, KI, KI sag ich nur. Seit Monaten geht es um nichts anderes, damit möglichst "effizient" gespart wird.
Es wird immer auf das Wohlbefinden der Mitarbeiter geachtet, und es gibt genügend Möglichkeiten, die eigenen Skills zu entfalten und zu fördern.
28 Urlaubstage...
Mach bitte nicht so viel Druck mit KI überall, langsam kann man das nicht mehr hören.
Flexible working hours, transparency, team spirit, great company events and offsites, the management team (some changes but overall great qualified management team working on eye level with the employees).
Sometime Xentral can move away from the start-up image as it is not a start-up anymore. Some benefits are standard and Xentral can also add some more.
Many improvements over the last year, so if Xentral continues this way, it will be and remain a great place to work
Really depending on the tasks and the deadlines. But most of the time good as flexible working hours makes it easier as well to align life and work.
One of the really great things at Xentral - great team and you can always count on your team mates.
Home Office Equipment provided and you can choose what you need to adjust your working place at home.
There can be always better communicated in a remote world. But for the remote set-up communication works pretty well and structured.
Diversity everywhere
In that stage of the company we can move mountains together and have really interesting topics to tackle
- Generally young and eager workforce.
- Flexible working hours and remote work.
- Good for people fresh out of the university.
- Only 28 days of holiday. Most companies in IT offer 30 days.
- No sustainable processes in the departments/interdepartmental
- Let the experts do what they do best and stop interfering. And do hire experts...
- Put more focus on usability - put ideas through the wringer and take a hard look at what you want to implement. Is it really user-friendly or does it just look good? Does it make sense? This will slow down the development process but the customers and the support team will probably appreciate it.
- Try to retain the associates and really listen to them. If people leave after 1-3 years, knowledge is constantly lost and that is a loss for the product.
I experienced a lot of frustration, many people were leaving. Fast-paced environment leaving no room for efficient processes and proper quality assurance. It felt like a fight against windmills.
Buggy product, slow responses to change requests, inconsistent development.
Depends on the department and how much of a workaholic you are. Some departments offer a good work-life balance - others not so much.
Currently a training budget for online learning is available but the timeframe between announcing the initiative and implementing it was very long.
Career opportunities exist but it's undefined how you actually get promoted. There is a competency model but it's more a theoretical thing.
I really loved my team, we had some great people in there. Everybody was always helping each other out. The same was true for some colleagues in other departments though it always depended on the person itself. Some people were not that helpful.
Not many older colleagues.
I will address upper management here, not my direct supervisor. Upper management seems to want to be involved in everything. Problem is they do not have competency in all areas leading to frustration because they do not always listen to the experts they hire.
As mentioned in other reviews, favoritism is strong here. This does not actually promote the best employees but those that know how to sell themselves best. And they do seem to hire aquaintances/friends in roles they have no experience in.
Too much interference by management and other stakeholders, no focus on usabiity in the product leading to some questionable design decisions and creating discontent and extra work for other departments. Too fast paced for proper end results. Constant changes in direction confuse.
Depends. There are regular meetings explaining company results and new developments which is a good thing. At the same time leavers were never communicated beforehand so you always got surprised by leaving messages on the last day of employment. In some cases this did not allow for proper handovers.
All the great social initiatives mentioned in the interview tempting me to start at Xentral were no longer existing once I started or discontinued shortly thereafter.
As for the salary...Let's just say the job I left Xentral for pays way more.
Older or younger people, men or women...I never saw any discrimination here.
My work offered lots of opportunities and I loved the work in itself.
Good for managers of managers people :D
Good for locals and vertical hierarchy structured company
(Non German speakers, expats plz stay away in my opinion, locals will be favoured over to you later if not sooner, Rather be wise and utilize your efforts somewhere else :) ...)
Managers of managers culture. Instead of real work expect only meetings from Product/Srum and then can ask why are we not delivering work and again spend more hours in Retrospective meeting to find why we didnt deliver work :)). I often heard term in IT "More talking & less coding"
There are specific unnecessary roles in company who try to find work and create those meetings with teams and they are more valued and management even listens to them instead of the people who are delivering work. Value Blue colour people as well, I think only Red colour people are recognised more (from Birkman colors)
Product/Dept managers should appreciate the work of the employees, In Biweekly review meetings product kind of get involves into politics by diverting attention of stackholders, sometimes either by altering slides such a way or instead favouring and highlighting their favourite team member work, please note its also difficult to get into the good books if you are not local.
Product shouldnt blame team members for their insecurities and incapabilities. Product use to promise the unrealistic deadline for the work to stack holders and then pass on the pressure to the team members.
Salary raise oh well,
did many occasions overtime as well often out of good wil and during the promotion Product guy got promoted instead and few of us were told that were already in higher bracket (Really didnt get that, also I think they dont read news and not aware about Inflation :)) ), funny part already got job with 20% hike at other place within week. I
Not a proper exit interview was conducted, the person just wanted to share the plan for upcoming holiday and how did the last weekend holiday go. Company cant grow if they dont reflect from their departing employees as they can show you reality without any pressure compare to the current working employees
Bascially its a mess and its more mess when you are non german or expat ...
I think founders need to talk to their employees at lower in hierarchy and try their best to get the picture out of it
Not much left at this point
One incomprehensible stupid decision follows another, its like satire
Managers and founders know nothing about how to develop a product or a software and it is willful ignorance.
There is no loyalty towards employees, fire and hire happens all the time here
Favoritism is extremely strong here, founder will just hire people on the side without them having to go through the application pipeline. None of them are fit for their job of course.
If you hire experts, listen to them instead of firing them when they say things that you dont want to hear
Depressing. You need to be very careful what you say, meanwhile managers badmouth your colleagues in front of you. People are fired for political reasons frequently.
Image is bad since the product ist objectivly bad, buggy, overcomplicated and has awful performance.
You can go far here if you can promise the world and know how to nod
its good, but not worth it
social is not exactly part of the agenda
Below management level its good. Loads of nice and capable people without inflated ego.
Dreadful. Bad faith is the rule not the exception. Founders, ceos and and partially lower management have lost touch with reality. If you intend to voice opinions that threathen their pipe dreams, you better do it after finding a new job. Deadlines are defined by management and presented to the teams. If you voice doubts, its negative attitude. At least you can then later serve as a scapegoat when the project fails spectacularly.
full remote
Theres a weekly meeting for transparency. This meeting is also used for accusatory speeches of the CEO, where he calls the real obstacles and problems that employees face in their daily work "excuses" that he will no longer accept.
Barely any women in upper positions. Incompetent but self-important men are preferred over competent women when it comes to promotions. German natives are favored in general.
There is potential but its overshadowed by the overall suck of working here
Colleagues, home office equipment, superiors, good product and interesting tasks, great company events
Employee retention, some lack of fairness, senseless top-down decisions/tasks that bring more work than benefit
Listen to us and our wishes/complaints, invest more into keeping loyal employees, trust your VPs and Heads, and please get rid off some micromanagement that still remains
Depending on your superior, you do get valuable feedback from time to time plus in regular feedback talks. Unfortunately, fairness and trust are a problem which is a thing you can see from top to bottom. Within a department, the trust is great and you have a lot of freedom. Heads and team leads trust their team members. On the other side, the Upper Management does not seem to always trust their lower management, including Heads and even VPs in making decision. Although it has gotten better, fairness regarding salary is also a problem, especially when it comes to loyal long-term employees.
Xentral is overall a decent employee, but we definitely have many employees who will leave at some point, because too many things are just not right. Depending on what you're looking for and which kind of employees you had to deal with previously, you might be super happy here and stay for a while. Or you won't. Unfortunately, we lost a lot of good coworkers over the years - many of these resignations could have been prevented.
It depends on you and your department / team. Generally we do have to work between 9 to 5. If you need to start later, go earlier or have a doctor's appointment, you won't have any issues.
Overtime is appreciated, but not paid. Whether and how much overtime you work depends on your position, the pressure you are under and yourself. If you can cope with bad numbers and the fact you will never get everything done, you can do the job in 8 hours without overtime. Some colleagues are under so much pressure, that the amount of overtime is unhealthy - but this is your own responsibility. We also had and have more work than time/capacity.
You own your career Xentral. If you do a great job, you can definitely make it and even switch to other departments if you'd like. Money-wise you'd probably be better off switching jobs/companies after a couple of years, but that's the same everywhere.
Overall okay, but not great. If you've just started with the company, you're probably better off than someone who has been with the company for longer. Salaries are not always fair and do not always match responsibility, but are paid on-time each month. If you're doing a good job, you can expect regular salary increases, even though they come too late when switching positions or responsibilites.
There are no bonuses (incl. Christmas or vacation bonuses). Overtimes is not compensated. Everyone I know has 30 vacation days, expect for us at Xentral (we have 28) - that's a bummer.
There are some other benefits like a company pension plan (which is not worth it for everybody), bike leasing, corporate benefits (discounts), yoga, free drinks in the offices, and so on. Amazing are the company events and regular department offsites.
Not much done here, but in Augsburg there is Tupperware available for your lunches to reduce waste as well as a water fountain to replace buying bottled water.
Colleagues are the best thing about Xentral and the reason why many people stay here. You never let anyone down and there's a great atmosphere. There are never any conflicts.
All leads are super friendly and understanding. Your direct lead helps you as much as possible. The indirect leads, Upper Management, unfortunately sometimes sets unrealistic or pointless goals, just to have some KPI look great, even though we are drowning in work. Decisions are often not understandable.
Home Office equipment is pretty good. You usually receive a new MacBook. Also, there is a decent home office budget to purchase exactly the kind of monitor, desk and chair that you'd like - or whatever else you need.
Unfortunately, equipment-wise our offices are not as good. Even though we do have heigh-adjustable desks in some offices, there is nothing but a mediocre monitor. No chargers or docking stations, so you have to bring everything from home (except for a HDMI cable :-)). Chairs are okay.
Other than that, the offices are usually central, nice and clean with good coffee and free water + soft drinks.
Management communicates financial figures very openly, which is great. The reasons behind decisions are not always communicated well enough. Cross-departmental communication is often extremely bad and chaotic, where departments are not aligned.
Xentral is fast-pace with a lot of changes. There are hardly any routines and always interesting tasks or projects. I have never been bored in the past years.
Remote work, Arbeitsausstattung, Produkt
Mitarbeiter werden als Kosten gesehen und es wird darauf gepokert, dass man sie mit geringem Gehalt halten kann
Klare Strategie und Ziele setzen und kommunizieren.
Haltet loyale Mitarbeiter, die das Produkt kennen!
Der Kollegenzusammenhalt sorgt dafür, dass man einige negativen Punkte in Kauf nimmt
Abhängig von der Abteilung. Überstunden werden gerne in Kauf genommen. Ohne wäre der workload nicht stemmbar
Die Karriere hat man bei Xentral selbst in der Hand
Die Kollegen sind bei einigen Mitarbeitern der Grund im Unternehmen zu bleiben
Kollegiales Verhältnis, kommt aber definitiv auf das Team an
Die Kommunikation wird leider immer intransparenter und Entscheidungen werden langsam top down kommuniziert
Gehalt orientiert sich am Minimum, das gezahlt werden muss um die Mitarbeiter gerade so zu halten. Keine klar definierten Gehaltsbänder sorgen für Unfairness.
Keine Sozialleistungen, Boni oder ähnliches. Bare minimum eben
So verdient kununu Geld.