Several years in this company with ups and downs
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Colleagues, Salary
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
1.) New 60% Rule
2.) Nobody listens to what people think
3.) A lot of weird unreasonable business decisions have been made without reasoning e.g.: Acquiring of companies that we don't really need (cost more money than they bring value)
Verbesserungsvorschläge
1.) One Mandatory Office Day -> Rest free to chose
2.) Value peoples opinion, make them feel heard
3.) Don't do anything someone above says "just because"
Arbeitsatmosphäre
There used to be a nice working culture in this company where people talk to each other before they just apply some changes. But now out of nowhere after record breaking figures during and after corona people are forced to come back to the office for 60% of the time, worth mentioning that there is several special exceptions for people who really need it (which I find positive) but there is also exceptions for people who don't really need it.
Overall I think this would be way better if there is like 1 fixed day where people come and the rest is free to choose.
If you compare this to any other IT company, we are going back in time.
Kommunikation
Used to be way better.
For the "Come back to office for 60% of the time change" there was an email sent with a link to an internal announcement and FAQs where you could comment without naming a real reason for the change, to be honest, chat-gpt would write similar reasons.
One employee started a voting where ~ 300 people voted against the change and the company did nothing about it.
One week later the COO of the company held an online call, started it very promptly without waiting for people to join, said a few meaningless words, so again no explanation. After the call there was no recording to watch, the internal announcement site was taken offline so no one could comment against it anymore and thats it.
This was enforced with no reason, not communicated properly + the office facilities are not in the shape they need to be in order to accommodate for everyone to come to the office again. Teams are across the world, everyone is in calls all day and we have a non cubical open office.
As of October 24th we still have construction work downstairs that we hear from time to time in the morning + I dont know how long it will take them to adapt the office spaces on 6 floors to work
Kollegenzusammenhalt
If it wasn't for the team and my colleagues I would not be here anymore.
Work-Life-Balance
This changed drastically with the "60% in office change", used to be very nice during and after corona until 1st of October.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
My direct manager is really cool and knows how to treat and manage people and work. Above him I would say it's a bit unclear what is happening, there i a lot of questionable decisions.
Interessante Aufgaben
Work is more or less interesting depending on if you have time to work on things that are innovative. Mostly there is work to implement new brands and do regulatory work.
Gleichberechtigung
I would think that it's more or less even but I cant tell for sure.
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
One of the reasons I am actually still here. The company pays very well.
Image
Everything on social media feels very fake.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
I have the feeling that if you know the right people in this company you can become anything which doesn't really speak for the company.