Living up to their terrible reputation
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Free lunches, if you remember to sign up, and if there’s no glass, metal or plastic in your plate that day
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Arbitrary hiring/firing, promoting people based on sympathy rather than skills, not recognizing the problems highlighted by the worker’s council over and over again (even causing some members to leave the company), no dogs allowed unless you’re the boss
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Work on your reputation by checking why the call keeps coming from inside the house. Live by your own five rules and standards, as well, instead of using them as excuses for firing competent people and never doing anything about fixing the rot that is coming from the head of the fish…
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Colleagues are great, but it is really hard when everything you say can and will be used against you. Weird decisions when it comes to hiring/firing, it all seems very volatile and arbitrary. That makes it hard to feel “safe” or particularly comfortable at work, since you are always walking on eggshells!
Kommunikation
So many weird decisions when it comes to promotions, hiring, firing, budget allocation…. I feel like high-level, the communication is good, but as soon as you break it down to a more granular level, you find a bunch of managers running around like chickens with their heads cut off seemingly doing what they want and getting rid of whomever questions them or doesn’t “swear allegiance” to whomever is manager that month.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Obviously there are some exemptions, but after over a year at bitpanda, I don’t even trust my own shadow. It feels like most people are just waiting to throw you under the bus, and even your “friends” will turn on you if the wind shifts the wrong way that day…
Work-Life-Balance
40h work weeks should be illegal in Austria, where it’s always 38,5h. The company swears it has only two office days a week, but your manager will bully you if you don’t come in at least four days a week.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
They fired the only competent people manager in operations a few months ago. It’s been going downhill for a long while now though.
Interessante Aufgaben
The strategy changes so often that it doesn’t matter what you’re working on, it’ll be irrelevant after three months.
Gleichberechtigung
Can’t even have an LGBTQIA+ chapter or participate officially in Pride cause HR claims that “then all religions need to have equal representation”. As if sexuality is the same as a religion or a choice…
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
There are none
Arbeitsbedingungen
Choice of Mac/Windows, budget for home office stuff
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
All according to the standards in Vienna
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
No budget for raises or even to justify keeping important teams, but we’re hiring and firing and spending on marketing and cooperations like it’s a bull run and we have unlimited funds
Image
I keep being asked why I work at a place with such a toxic reputation. Fintech in Austria is a mess, but even so, bitpanda has a terrible reputation
Karriere/Weiterbildung
The company barely has budgets for the AI licenses that should replace half the team soon