Horrible working culture and lack of leadership, no wonder they have to let go of so many people.
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
They actually do some interesting projects and many cool people especially on the button line from whom more and more are leaving now.
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
It is sad to see a company that used to be one of the best players for AI really early on in the field to see in this state. I think that says more than enough
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Maybe if you promise investors to deliver on three KPIs, more partners, more revenue and more hiring and you fail to deliver on the first two, then it is not a good idea to just keep adding more people to the team. Management 101. Also I believe you should tell the people that the runway is only a couple of months long and you are not able to close any significant projects or hit any other targets than there have to be much more layoffs. It is just fair. One thing is clear you cannot continue how you have been doing.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
There are some very cool and smart people. But the culture used to be much better now I feel everyone is looking only for themselves.
Kommunikation
Manager said everything is going as planned and that we appliedAI is the biggest initative in Europe. A month later they let people go and I do not understand why they claim to be something they are not. Other initatives are much bigger. how is this even legal?
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Community in the teams can be quite good. But teams seem to work against each other and every team is a bit on their own.
Work-Life-Balance
This is actually quite okay, as project stuffing is rather low
Vorgesetztenverhalten
There is a clear lack of leadership. The C-Level are all introverts who do not really know how to work with people or motivate them and it starts showing. Best example most of the C-Level do not even live closer than 100 miles to work so good luck spotting them in the office.
Interessante Aufgaben
If you will get a project than they can be quite interesting but currently with this little projects people are staffed below 60%. No wonder they are loosing money. They have totally inflated the company with investor money
Gleichberechtigung
I remember there was one high level employee that left because she figured out that some to levels below her was making more money than her. They have improved this now.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
They pretend to be the leader in trustworthy AI. Which is not true. They are not the biggest initiative. There some that are much larger and also doing trustworthy AI.
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
Salary is okay but you will make probably more somewhere else in the same position. Also they burning through money like crazy so not sure how long they can keep going, paying those salaries. They are already laying people off but not enough and the runway does not look very good. If you reed the comments here just ask yourself how likely you it will be that they will get a follow up investment.
Image
Everyone outside I have been speaking to tells me that they do not really know what appliedAI is doing. Not the best image. Used to be one of the coolest places to do AI when we where small now it has been completely run down by management. Does not really come as a surprise for me.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
I learned a lot there and it was quite good for my career.