A company for those who like to work more and earn less
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
It's one of the few companies out there that still allows you do do remote work. Working in the office is not mandatory.
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Several problems that I cannot expose here to keep mine and other's anonymity.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Improve the communication in the hiring process. Everyone is told during the negotiations that you get a bonus of 2 full salaries a year. That bonus is actually taken into consideration to reach your salary expectation, so you want X and they say with 14 salaries you achieve X. But in reality, at least for 2024, people didn't get their 2 extra salaries (it was less), because company didn't achieve their goals. I heard this complaint from several colleagues. You need to communicate your candidates properly.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
There are two groups of employees: the ones that joined before 2023 which are upset with their undervaluation and those that joined after 2023, which are happy with their salaries. You work with several motivated and several unmotivated people. The salary topic is very recurrent. Elli is there to prove that the only way to earn more is to switch jobs.
Kommunikation
According to my experience whenever you need some information you have to try hard to get it, push your managers, and most of the times you won't have a concrete answer because no one knows or can't do anything.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
It's hard to keep up with the sick day/sick week culture. Your colleagues have learnt that it's easy to double their vacation days by having multiple sick days and sick weeks very, VERY often. If you are a healthy person get ready to work for you and for the others. Sadly there's nothing the company can do about it, as far as I know.
Work-Life-Balance
Per observation work-life seems awesome, whenever you feel like having half or a full day off you can simply eg.: bring your kids to the doctor, have doctor appointments, have any kind of appointment anywhere, get sick, you just inform your colleagues, and nobody will ask anything. I've never seem this kind of freedom in any other company before. If you don't have kids and appointments here and there, get ready to work for you and for the others. (I hope you did notice the irony in this comment)
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Superiors usually have none or little autonomy to decide or change anything, they are basically bringing the issue to their superiors and the cycle repeats.
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
As stated before, if you decide to join now you'll probably get competitive salaries. If you've joined a couple years ago, you are earning expressively less then the others.