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There are still some great people from before the acquisition.
The company has a performance system where 10% will be evaluated as low performers with no objectivity. They will receive NO salary increase. Yearly, the low performers are informed to the C level before the "career conversation" with the employee. By the time the managers talk to the employee, the decision was already taken without any previous feedback to the employee. It is like a SENTENCE WITHOUT A TRIAL. You can see and hear frustration, low engagement, and a high level of quiet quitting. The company gave steps back to the stone age and away from agile values.
They don't care. They send surveys and ignore the results. Then they make controlling and old manufacturing-style factory decisions invoking such surveys as an excuse.
People are unmotivated. Employees make fun of the management's bad decisions and rumors in group chats as they will not listen.
They tried to implement a company brand initiative that was a disaster. During an IT management meeting with all IT members, one person provided constructive and challenging feedback. The management got upset. Then HR nagged and asked that person to apologize. This skilled person felt humiliated and got a better job elsewhere.
They force you to go to 3 times per week to the office and will control you. Even if it makes no sense to you, you work with distributed teams and people from many locations.
They say this is "our ways of working", when the ways of working have been remote since covid.
They have a punishment mindset. They will add you to the blacklist forever if you have some bad months. You are not allowed to fail. The review process is about competing with your colleagues instead of collaborating.
Upper Management has no leadership.
No value stream. It is mostly a feature factory with long cycle times and no agility.
Communication between areas is a mess. A lot of dependencies between teams that nobody is willing to fix. They mention "agile" all the time and do the opposite.
Not a place to go the extra mile.
Thank you for openly sharing your perspective with us! I appreciate your openness.
I would like to address two points in more detail:
Performance Review: Our performance evaluation process is crafted with the intention of nurturing the professional growth of our team members. Someone being evaluated as a low performer is not seen by us as a judgment but as an opportunity to further develop a colleague. We are committed to supporting our colleagues in overcoming challenges and ensuring their motivation and fulfillment. We are also continuously gathering the feedback of our employees on the performance review process, and adjusting it to better reflect the needs of diverse teams at zooplus.
Work-Life Balance: Our hybrid working model is designed in a way that both allows flexibility and work-life balance and encourages a collaborative approach. We believe in the power of working together in person, even if it's not with your direct team members. We understand that it might not fit everyone's needs. However, we establish a lot of flexibility in our ways of working and always work on improvements that make the office and home office time of our employees better.
Your feedback is very helpful for us as we are continuously working towards creating a better workplace.
Nothing at all.
You are now monitored too much and have no freedom at all.
The management is fed from A-Z. They can have whatever they want in addition to their lavish salaries and burn endless amounts of money while normal employees get nothing. This massive inequality is not evened out by free fruit and free drinks.
You should bring the company back to where it was before August 2021 and throw away all these new and oh so great 'improvements'. In fact, things have gotten much worse. Even the bonus has dropped from 13% to 10% then 9%.
It pains me to see how a once great company has changed so badly, owing to US investment firm Hellman and Friedman.
The company is now characterized by pure capitalism. There is a lack of humanity and appreciation. 'Saving for the investor' is the new motto.
The company has grown because the employees used to be valued, had a say and therefore made a lot of effort. You received real bonus payments and there were team events that you were looking forward to.
Nowadays only the highest levels get bonuses and there are a few cheap team events for employees.
The appreciation is completely absent.
The working atmosphere is toxic, especially since the takeover by investors Hellmann and Friedmann in August 2021.
Up until that point, Zooplus had been a great company to work with. Since the takeover, however, savings have been made primarily on employees.
First of all, the corona bonus for 2021 has been cancelled. Next, the hard earned employee bonus was reduced from 13% to 10%.
And it doesn't stop.
The old Managing Director and company founder, who left the company in October 2022, was always concerned about the company's image. The new owners are only out to maximize profits.
Sometimes on Friday evening just before the end of the day you get calls from your superior and receive work instructions.
After a day's work at Zooplus, you don't want to do anything else in your free time.
It takes the whole weekend to recover from the work week.
Constantly empty promises from superiors. That the supervisor at all about career/further education
The fact that the supervisor even talks about a career is nothing more than a ploy to give the employee hope that he will be compliant.
That's the 'still' only good thing about Zooplus.
Nevertheless, there are many colleagues who have already been poisoned by the toxic atmosphere and behave in an absolutely uncollegial manner.
There are no older colleagues in the company. I hardly know anyone in the company who is older than 50. Obviously you see that you get rid of people quickly when they reach a certain age.
Disgusting.
Money is saved everywhere. Loud open-plan offices, reduction in home office options a la Elon Musk. Constant control by the manager.
The management level gets significant bonuses if they beat through the orders from the investor.
And that's how the heads of departments behave. It is no longer asked if it makes sense and no more discussions are allowed. Instead, each specification is simply beaten up from top to bottom. No matter how stupid the decision is. You can't say no or but.
The latest idea to save money in favor of the investors and the lavish bonuses of the heads of companies is a performance rating, which is given in the annual meeting.
There is a set percentage of employees who are classified as underperforming. It is around 10% (if not even 20%).
And the employees who fall into it don't get a salary raise.
This means that even if every employee in a department improves their performance, the supervisor must classify some employees as "underperformed".
In almost all other companies, there is no such a performance rating. Every employee there receives a salary increase every year. The experience gained each year is the increase in performance.
Another reason why other companies pay salary increases without any ifs and buts every year is because inflation increases by around 2% annually in normal times.
However, the owners of Zooplus are completely indifferent to this.
The salary at Zooplus is already below average anyway.
There is no inflation compensation or anything like that.
Other companies pay significantly better.
I can't say anything bad about this.
You have no right to participate.
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. We genuinely appreciate your feedback, and we're sorry to hear about your concerns regarding the changes in zooplus' management and working environment.
We understand that recent changes, especially after the ownership shift in 2021, have been challenging for many. While we've had to implement adjustments to our structure, we want to assure you that these decisions were made with the long-term sustainability and growth of the company in mind. The happiness of our employees is our highest priority, and our goal is to make zooplus a better place for furry friends, their owners, and the world.
I'd like to address a couple of topics in more detail. Firstly, I want to assure you that our company is committed to fostering a rewarding culture where employees are motivated by meaningful roles and their achievements are fully recognized, both in terms of career growth and monetary rewards. The salary increase structure implemented during performance reviews is intended to encourage professional development and collaboratively identify areas for improvement.
Regarding concerns about our leadership, we are dedicated to promoting a culture of transparency, respect, and care. We're continuously reevaluating and enhancing our training programs and interview processes to ensure they align better with our core values. We take this matter seriously and are actively working to strengthen the leadership and communication aspects within the organization.
That being said, I would like to point out that we take your feedback very seriously, and we're working on improving overall employee satisfaction. If you have additional insights or suggestions on how we can better meet our employees' needs, we encourage you to reach out to us.
Kollegen in der Abteilung waren alle super, auch Vorgesetztenverhalten war hier top!
HR-Abteilung behandelt Mitarbeiter von oben herab, total unprofessionell und keine Lust auf Probleme einzugehen und schlechte Kommunikation. Das Problem soll aber seit kurzen nicht mehr bei Zooplus tätig sein, wahrscheinlich wurden Konsequenzen gezogen!
Gerechtere Gehälter, gewisse Abteilungen bekommen für das Delegieren viel Geld für wenig Arbeit. Unsere Abteilung bekommt eine Hohe Arbeitslast, ist aber am unteren Ende der Gehaltsspanne!
Gab fast nichts - keine Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten!
Könnte deutlich mehr sein, für die Arbeitslast und Verantwortung!
Bemüht sich stetig, da kann nichts sagen
Mit das Beste am Job gewesen!
Gab fast keine!
Vorgesetzte waren gut
Gute Arbeitsbedingungen, falls kein Corona im Weg ist.
Gab keine negativen Aspekte!
Monoton und dafür viel!
Good colleagues.
Bad middle and upper management.
Below-average salaries.
No career progression.
Very little choice in terms of tech.
Please don't trust what you are told in the interview, we are not agile, we are not modern, we don't have ownership over much, we don't use many moderns tools or programming languages. This is a bad company and you should not join it given the immense choice Munich has. This company does not deserve the engineers it has and people are starting to leave in droves (myself included).
You need to revise your entire strategy of hiring and paying engineers a competitive salary should be a top point.
A complete mess and chaos. There are no proper processes, there is no clear direction, focus or medium-long term plan and vision of the product. Since new management came along the processes have actually worsen. They want things done fast and they cannot be fast enough. Agile processes are thrown out the window in favor or waterfall, time estimates approach where you are suppose to finish a topic within the estimated time (and you have to estimate the effort which is then communicated to management).
No idea.
OK in my department but others are worse.
Since new management came in, they slashed our educational budget. A lot of talk about career progression but no clear path or promotion. They always ask for more while giving little in return.
They are below market average. NO salary progression for current engineers and the promotion scheme is an absolute joke and an insult. Stay away if you care at least a bit about salary. No other benefits.
A lot of talk, not a lot of doing.
Great people, probably the only positive thing I can say about Zooplus.
OK so far but I’ve not dealt with many.
Good personality, lacks experience.
We’re working remotely due to corona but the offices in S15 were OK.
Bad. Upper management decides and the decisions flow top-bottom instead of there being a discussion.
OK
Nothing interesting, the usual CRUD e-commerce shop with very little choice outside of Java and legacy JSP.
Every level of management is approachable for ideas. If you are ambitious you can really change a lot.
Not an employer for everybody. The company is no place for low paced unambitious people.
Work more and standards and automation. Some processes are still really old school.
Very good. Positive, friendly and enjoyable.
People who know zooplus have a really good impression of the company.
Very good! No stupid leading by principles. If holidays are needed and there is somebody who can cover your tasks, holidays are being approved on short notice. The company is also flexible in many other matters. I have never felt unwelcome to ask for something, the company wants to help and wants its employees to be happy and healthy.
No guided path but plenty of possibilities for the ones who want to develop. The company tries to support every individual development need.
Salaries are not standardized, what can become frustrating. But good and hard work is recognized and salary increases can be openly discussed.
The company is donating a lot of pet food, occasionally employees support animal related facilities. I am not aware of any activities targeting improving the environment. But! The company handled corona perfectly. They made home office mandatory from the very beginning and supported with office equipment for home office. They offered tests and made sure that everything is save and clean when being in the office. Keeping employees save and healthy was and is the managements highest concern.
Very good. No fights, everything is professional. Before corona lots of activities and parties.
Everybody is being treated responsibility.
Depends on the individual superior. Sometimes it takes too long to identify non-performer as well as in the management and in the professional staff. The company needs more experts and highly motivated people to cope with what’s coming. Narrow minds which just keep repeating what they learned 10 years ago are not innovative and future oriented enough for zooplus.
Great! Nice offices, well equipped meeting rooms. Good chairs, good coffee machines, free drinks. Full equipped kitchens. You can’t ask for more.
Information can still get lost sometimes but the communication improved a lot. Regular updates of the C-Levels give a good insight on the strategy. On team level superiors can be sometimes overwhelmed by too many direct reports. A change in the organizational structure could help.
Did not hear of any issues. The company consists of a broad multicultural labor force and operates all over the EU. But employees are coming from all over the world and everybody is allowed to be as individual as they want to be.
You can definitely grow your skills if you just want to. Changes between departments are possible. There is also nobody stopping you from running interesting projects even if they are not in necessarily in your field. There is no way of getting bored in this fast growing company, if you just have the slightest drive to improve things and if you are willing to look a bit beyond your daily tasks.
junges dynamisches internaltionales Team mit guten Aufstiegschancen
Flache Hirarchien - gute Partykultur
Hunde können mit ins Büro gebracht werden
Das starke Wachstum fordert das Team stark. dafür wird aber auch stark gefeiert.
CO2 Initiativen und Green team
Jeder Mitarbeiter hat ein Budget für Weiterbildung. Man muss sich nur selbst um die Trainings kümmern.
Multinationales Team das super zusammerarbeitet
Es gibt eininge ältere Kollegen, die im Team voll integriert sind.
Über COVID sehr mitarbeiterfreundliche Home-office Regelungen geschaffen. Interessante Benefits, wie z.B. Fittness Studio subventioniert oder Obst im Büro sowie freie Getränke.
viele Team Leads sind erfolgreiche Frauen.
Although the company is no longer quite so small, you still have the feeling that it is one big family.
Nothing - I hope I stay a few more years
Continue with what you have started - even a little faster sometimes
Very good atmosphere, little departmental thinking, due to the fact that operational work is outsourced, you automatically have to think and work at a higher level.
On the surface, the image may not be so good, BUT:
Many colleagues who leave the company find great positions at other companies - market leadership and ecommere probably help a lot.
I don't like the word work-life balance as work is part of my life - what matters more to me is flexibility and here management offers as much as possible. this was the case during the hard corona phase and I have the impression it will remain so
As described above, I have changed my area of responsibility several times in my time. I am no exception; many other successful colleagues have also made a career in the company. Of course, this cannot be planned. zooplus is not that big. But changes, even to other locations and positions, are generally made possible very often...
Logistics doesn't usually pay that well - this is a big exception.... Munich, ecommerce and outsourcing make it possible - but I can only speak for myself.
The company is claiming to do a lot (and many initiatives are started); but I would wish higher speed and more external communication about this
The biggest asset of the company - especially with all the different nationalities!
see above
Very good. Of course I wish for more, but realistically this is already very good - especially the feedback behaviour.
It is in the middle of Munich. It equipment is quite new. New home office rules will allow also more flexibility and more space - I am really happy
a lot of effort is put into it, but of course there can never be enough communication.
There are no hierarchical boundaries. There is no differentiation between nationalities, religions or anything else. The diversity of the employees is phenomenal
I was able to change my tasks several times during my employment and it was a step to interesting tasks every time. Change and hire-within, even for managerial functions, is lived. Of course, this cannot always be planned, but it is applied wherever possible.
- freundliche, offene Arbeitsatmosphäre
- abwechslungsreiche Aufgaben
- viele Bürohunde ;)
- Homeoffice wegen Corona
- Karrieremöglichkeiten
- Ausstattung im Büro: Teilweise veraltet und Platzprobleme
- Mitarbeiter, die sehr lange im Unternehmen sind blockieren innovative Ideen von jüngeren Mitarbeitern
- mehr in Personalentwicklung und Employer-Branding investieren
- generell freundlich und aufgeschlossen
Für das Image müsste mehr getan werden, zooplus muss sich wirklich nicht verstecken.
Meiner Meinung nach müsste mehr in Personalentwicklung investiert werden um die Mitarbeiter langfristig zu binden und weiterzuentwickeln.
Super Kollegen, spannende Aufgaben und vor allem die Möglichkeit ein Teil der Veränderung zu sein.
Wenn man nicht gerade ein Haustier hat, kennt man Zooplus wohl nicht.
Der Name Zooplus muss gerade im IT Umfeld gestärkt und bekannt werden.
Das ausrichten von Meetups könnte hier ein Treiber sein.
Zum einem großen Teil organisieren sich die Teams selbst. Dabei entscheiden sie über die Menge an Arbeit die in dem nächsten Intervall gemacht wird, als auch wie diese Arbeit erledigt wird. Einzeln, zu Zweit oder in einer Gruppe.
Zooplus ist einfach noch zu unbekannt, wenn man kein Haustier hat.
An vielen wird der Name einfach vorbei gehen und sie werden niemals wissen was sie hier verpasst haben.
Wir haben flexible Arbeitszeiten und einen hohen Grad an Eigenständigkeit. Beides verlangt eine gute Selbstkontrolle um in der Balance zu bleiben.
Interne Weiterbildung, Konferenzen oder auch Trainings mit externen Experten ist alles möglich.
Die Kollegen lassen dich nicht allein im Regen stehen.
Ob es nun darum geht direkt bei einem Problem zu helfen oder etwas anderes zu übernehmen, damit man sich voll auf eine Sache konzentrieren kann, deine Kollegen helfen wo sie können.
Langjährige Mitarbeiten werden in der Regel als ein Quell des Wissens und der Legenden der Entstehung gewisser Systeme geschätzt.
Meine Vorgesetzten geben mir viel Spielraum in der Gestaltung, erwarten aber auch eine entsprechende Leistung. Bei Unklarheiten oder Fragen stehen Sie jedoch stehts zur Verfügung.
Gerade in diesen Zeiten mit Corona und Homeoffice hat sich der Zoo nicht lumpen lassen. Von Bürostühlen und Monitoren die man mit nach Hause nehmen kann, über eine strikte Beschränkung des Zugangs zu den Büros.
Grundsätzlich gibt es in den Büros kostenlose Getränken, Kaffee, Tee und Obst.
Auch des Menschen bester vierbeiniger Freund ist willkommen wenn er denn eine entsprechende Erziehung bekommen hat.
Videocalls machen das Miteinander in Zeiten von Corona einfacher, aber der persönliche Kontakt fehlt mit der Zeit dann doch.
Durch tägliche Stand-Ups, wöchentliche Abteilungs Syncs und zwei wöchentliche Planungsmeetings, ist der Informationsstand ganz gut.
Allerdings fehlt auch hier die Abstimmung an der Kaffeemaschine.
Zooplus ist hier auf einem guten weg.
Es gibt immer mehr Frauen in Führungspositionen und es wird für Awareness gesorgt.
Da sich die Teams selbst organisieren, kann hier viel Einfluss auf die anstehenden Aufgaben und deren Gestaltung genommen werden. Es muss aber auch klar sein es geht nicht immer nur um neue Projekte, sondern auch um bestehende Systeme die historisch bedingt in dem Aufgabenbereich liegen.
How they react during the corona pandemic. That dogs are allowed to bring to the office.
That they let ambitious people leave the company because the managers don't care.
Hire more German people. Hire more managers. Interview people who resign within the first months / years.
Some people are very competent and nice - but they won't stay long at this company.
Not really well. They neither pay well for promotions.
No one appreciates it or cares if you work on the weekends or longer than you get paid.
Very good. They do as much as they can at zooplus.
This doesn't exist here.
They don't care about you. You are replaceable.
Good. The cleaner are very good. Kitchen and bathroom is always clean
Communication with other departments doesn't exist. Communication with the managers is also very hard because the fluctuation rate of them is too high.
No extra money for the train ticket. For munich the pay is low.
After some month working there you will notice that there is no opportunity to learn more, because you don't have the time for it. Do what the 1000 emails tell you to do.
So verdient kununu Geld.