riskine 

GmbH

Unternehmenskultur

Praise / Acknowledgement
I often felt devs were less recognized for achievements even though this is a SaaS company. I believe management is often not aware of the overtime / sacrifices made, especially!!! (can't stress this enough) from the Devops / Integration Team.

Working climate:
I felt a lot of pressure to finish things inside the estimates given at the beginning of a project, even though projects are so complex and requirements change a lot / are not clear, which racks up a lot of technical debt which only seldom gets resolved and makes future projects even more complicated and even simple things take some time in order to not break anything.

Tech Leads:
The tech leads for Backend/Frontend/Devops & Integrations are all insanely knowledgable and hard working and it was a pleasure to work them every day. On the (very) rare occasion things got heated, differences got smoothed out the following day and lessons were learned to prevent the same thing from happening again.

Project (Customer Manager / Sales / HR / Finance:
Not sure if these are their proper titles, but regarding the cooperation with non-devs I only have good memories, pleasent talks whenever we met.

There were regular all-hands in which relevant news were broadcast so everyone was aware on what the current focus is and how the company is doing. They were kept short enough to not be boring and I felt I knew what was going in regards with the company at all times.

The communication with higher ups could be very exhausting at times. At certain points in time it felt impossible to get a meeting with them and everything got postponed / canceled which made me feel not being taken seriously / not valued.

Every single Dev that worked / still works there was was pleasent to work with. I don't know how, but riskine seems to attract and hire motivated / nice devs. The biggest reason why I stayed for as long as I stayed.

Time off:
Requests for time off / work from home / other reasonable wishes were all fullfilled without pushback even when it caused extra work to accomodate for.

Overtime:
I felt obligated /pushed to work more and more overtime since this is what the others leads did. I believe I worked overtime every single week, but kept it to a minimum as best as possible but this fact was also brought up during income negotiations.

Leaving of the company.
My wish for leaving the company 2 weeks earlier than the notice period would have allowed me was fullfilled without any pushback which I am thankful for.

Up until I left the company I had a good opinion even though I felt ignored / with no guidance at some times, but afterwards it became a bit sureal.

A variable part (goals of 2023) of my salary was still open when I left the company in the beginning of 2024. I complied with the request from my superior to postpone it 2 weeks but was ignored / not given a meeting until I involved HR which made me an appointment for the next working day. There, for the first time I heard a lot of harsh critique about my work and what felt like personal attacks.

The worst part about this for me, is that I requested regular check ins for the goals / variable part of my salary which were postponed / cancelled where all the critique could have been brought up and been taken care of, but hearing it 2! months after I left the company when talking about the variable income part of my work with no real way to prepare myself for this meeting felt sureal and unfair and bitters my whole experience at this company.

This company grew a lot in the 5 years I worked here, so there were always new / interesting things to do and sometimes I even had the choice to decline tasks which I highly appreciate.

Other times I wished I had more time to clean up after a hasty deploy / fix but there was always more to do. I acknowledge it as a valid strategy of a growing company to expand quickly, but it made my life as a dev harder and sometimes led to what felt for me catastrophic failures and absurd amounts of stress and sleepless nights.