A company that is full of false promises and has become a sad shadow of itself
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
The initial idea of the company was great. Now not much of it is left.
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
The toxic promise of a "culture" in exchange for lower salary and unattractive projects.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Employees who leave the company should be careful about their rights. I have witnessed on multiple occasions some "accidental mistakes" of how many holidays are left when you leave.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
In general quite good because between peers because they are nice and supportive.
BUT: You hear about how important the culture is? Don't believe or overrate it, it is merely used to justify the mediocre salaries. When it comes to important topics like career path, the employee's opinion does not truly matter but hey-you get to democratically vote on which coffee machine you want! Also, Self-organization is just a cover-up for the fact that no-one wants to take responsibility or ownership.
Kommunikation
Quite inconsice and all over the place. Information overload. Also if you give feedback to management they still do what they want and dont listen to the peers.
This company lacks structures. On all levels.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
The peers are the only nice thing about this company, really.
Work-Life-Balance
You get to work like in an consultancy but paid like in an agency. Overhours can be taken of, theoretically. Also home office has long been a hussle up until corona. There was a lot of mistrust and controll. For instance, if you billed less than xx% on the client you were asked to justify your low productivity.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Flat hierarchies is just a selling point. There are very stiff hierarchies and the company is in general very risk averse and conservative and not as fancy and innovative as they market themselves.
Interessante Aufgaben
Many are stuck on underwhelming long therm projects. We are off-shore workers /Working hands for our clients.
Gleichberechtigung
I have seen many times that designers get discriminated over developers. As a developer you just have to code well to get promoted. As a designer you have to do also sales, give presentations in your freetime, attend to events, push own initiatives within the company etc. . Salaries is also much lower for designers in comparison.
Also I have not seen many BIPOC people, but the ones that were there, did not get the best support for instance by not getting raises for a long time and on top of that extra or less rewarding work, thus enhancing their feeling of not being good enough, while others were supported for way less. Some of them left burned out, which is already a very worrysome indicator...
Arbeitsbedingungen
You get the phone you want and the laptop can also be chosen. State of the art hardware. However in summer it's a sauna.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
Gone bad. There used to be a Pro-Bono Iniative. Now it has been removed and became a marketing gimmick to attrackt new people. It lies however in the past.
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
Very tiny career steps that are hard to achieve because they depend on whether or not your supervisor trusts you. And some just don't.
Image
Branding is better than the reality. Unfortunately, they make a lot of promises and are very bad at keeping up to them.
Especially when it comes to the culture: It used to be a CORE aspect of the strategy and over the years it has disappeared in it completely. Now it's all about growth. Employees matter way less than they used to. sad.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
This is a sad point. Many unclear expectations that are impossible to be met because they are constantly changing and not being tracked. Of course only for the people on the bottom. The management and upper people have apparently plenty of training opportunities - the sky is the limit.