Nice employees, not so good employer
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
The work and the employees
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
It feels like they don't trust their employees, benefits and salary are below average for the industry
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Focus on the people instead of KPIs. Give a raise to your employees instead of hiring new overpaid roles.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Awesome colleagues, nice offices (with great office locations)
Kommunikation
Communication with C-level management is bad. They always say "we have an open door policy and you should just get in", but in reality they're either in meetings or not in the office at all. There are monthly all hands meetings with a QnA at the end but for some question they start laughing and just say "no".
Kollegenzusammenhalt
No issued here, colleagues are the best!!
Work-Life-Balance
Way below average for this industry, and it is getting worse and worse. Now we are required to be in the office (depending on your position) 2 to 5 ways per week and they also introduced a new tool which tracks who's in the office at which day and could potentially used to track the employees. Also other regulations are getting more strict over time. Workation was reduced from 2 to 1 month per year without notice (after they completely reworked our Confluence, so it's not in the edit history anymore). You now have to plan and take vacation until a deadline (which is before summer holiday for schools, which makes it really hard for families), ...
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Really depends. Haven't made any negative experience with Project Leads or Tech Leads but everything above is bad. E.g. top management kicks out people from booked meeting rooms for their own meetings.
Interessante Aufgaben
Most projects are interesting, you can use latest technology and can switch projects on requests (at least after some time)
Gleichberechtigung
Appsfactory hires employees from other countries and pays them less "cause they don't speak German and are requested less from clients", there are multiple illegal clauses in working contracts (e.g. you're not allowed to talk about your salary). Of course German people know that's illegal but foreigners are scared to talk about it due to such illegal clauses. Appsfactory expanded to Moldova to pay less taxes there and have some cheaper employees. Only men in higher management positions.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
as with every other employee
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
We had a workshop once about what could be improved but nothing happened
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
Good for Germany, below average for the industry, bad perks
Image
Even my haircutter heard bad things about the company
Karriere/Weiterbildung
You can ask for new experiences but theres no official plan for continues education.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Arbeitgeber-Kommentar
Hi,
Thank you for your detailed feedback. We are very happy that you appreciate our modern offices and the collaboration with your colleagues, as well as the work and exciting projects at Appsfactory. At the same time, we take your criticisms very seriously and I would like to comment on some of them.
Salary/Benefits: We offer competitive compensation that matches or exceeds industry benchmarks in Germany. Also, we do have a variety of perks to offer (e.g. job bike, Egym membership, workation, Kindergarten subsidy, flexible working hours or regular team events). We always listen to our #Appsfactorians, regularly analyse our benefits and evaluate new opportunities.
Hybrid Work: We understand that transitioning to a hybrid work schedule can be an adjustment. But our approach offers numerous advantages - by coming to the office 2 days a week, you can connect and communicate efficiently with your team, work together on projects, and gain from face-to-face learning.
Supervisor behaviour: If you have ever experienced that some one from the top management kicked you out of a booked meeting room, then please get in touch with People & Culture. This is really not what we stand for and I assume that this was an absolute exception.
Equality: When we hired our colleagues from abroad, we always determine salaries based on their technical expertise and in line with market standards. Our #Appsfactorians - no matter where they come from - are all valued and have been supported in the relocation process. We provided a flat in Germany for up to 4 weeks free of charge, including for family members.
We've introduced our new tool 'Pult' to simplify desk booking for our colleagues. This tool helps ensure that everyone has the opportunity to work collaboratively with their teams during project days in a common office room. Please note that 'Pult' is not intended to track our employees. Furthermore, we have never had the rule of a 2-month workation, this has always been 4 weeks per year. Please get in touch with our People & Culture team to find out how this misunderstanding came about.
Kind regards
Isabel