Great place to learn if you are young. Worst environment if you are Head or above. Management needs to grow up.
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
The people
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Politics and the toxic environment it has become.
The organization was not like that 2 years ago, it has changed negatively so much that is sad to see.
Very competent leaders have left the organization and still they are unable (or maybe they prefer not to see it) to recognize that they are destroying all that was good at Emma. Easy example: no COO, no CFO, no CTO, no CMO,....that shows that the founders cannot manage anymore the organization, they don't know how to manage the organization.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Fire the person responsible for the sales organization. Its a toxic person that adds no value to their organization (his contribution to the company for the last years is not measurable); has no plan how to grow, and only uses politics for his own benefit.
Unfortunately the new lead responsible for people is also a disappointment and is also playing politics.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
The environment is toxic, mainly driven by the very strong top-down approach and fear (including owners and a couple of other C-levels) that transfer to the organization. The message of "you are not good enough" is constantly communicated. Besides this tension, stress and fear of encounters with C-level is present.
Kommunikation
If consistency in communication would lead to facts, Emma would be in a much better shape than now. Communication of hope of "we are going to" of " we have heard you" of "Manu and I have changed" is happening every 2 weeks. Reality is, nothing happens. C-levels communicating how super fantastic their new leadership training is though no real improvement is happening with the top management. All C-levels are not in touch with their organization, and it has become very visible the politics that are managing the organization.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
The best thing of Emma, the people. The collaboration of people, the ambition to grow and to learn, is what makes worth the company.
Work-Life-Balance
No respect what so ever with personal time, scheduling meetings at late night.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
C-levels (F, M) in the organization negatively criticizing people in meetings not acting as role models. There is one way of giving feedback which is destructive, "you are not good enough".
Politics in the organization have gone to a point in which promotions are not been given to people who deserve it, just because of "gut feelings" also known as "the silent whisperer on the founders' ears shaping a false shape of the induvial before performance evaluation rounds".
Interessante Aufgaben
Task are cool and interesting, but after certain time it becomes very repetitive.
Gleichberechtigung
Political, toxic environment.
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
Their employment strategy is easy: hire young expats promising strong learning curve and development for absolute out of the market salary. When doing this, and as they employ a young base of international people, then they build a community of people around the brand.
For senior management, also way underpaid compared to market.
No benefits, the funders have a "no sharing" mentality and squeeze everyone for their own benefit.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Careers development or better to say, change your scope of action is possible at Emma. However, even if you have been 2 months in the new position, they will start building pressure to force you to leave. They expect you to solve problems, finds solutions and of course, no support to avoid someone failing in the position. No self-reflection from their side.