Chaos, stress, burnout, lack of good (upper) management
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
flexible working time
benefits
in general: good cause & purpose
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
no strategy
too much stress
unavailable management
decision fatigue
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Clear strategy
Clear guidelines for 1:1 and weekly team meetings: MANDATORY!
Enforce clear consequences for people who harm the company culture
Upper management: don’t forget your teams! They save your asses time and time again.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Among colleagues within your own team, things are usually fine, you can influence that yourself. But as soon as other teams or even senior management get involved, it becomes difficult. Stress, pressure...everything has to happen immediately and at lightning speed.
Kommunikation
There’s no transparent communication, and the communication tools provided are used differently by each team. The D-level is barely accessible to their people. Jour fixes and team weeklies are constantly cancelled or rescheduled so often that they end up not happening at all. Leads come to meetings unprepared. Employee happiness surveys are conducted, but no actions are taken as a result.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Unfortunately, the management also fails to intervene when toxic behaviour among colleagues is reported, even though it is brought up multiple times by different people. Instead, those who have the courage to speak up are gaslighted. Across all teams, you hear the same thing: people are burned out. And so, everyone ends up just suffering together, which seemingly provides some sense of solidarity.
Work-Life-Balance
Well, you can set your working hours flexibly, no question about that. But your thoughts will still revolve around work even during your free time, simply because there’s so much to do that it’s nearly impossible to switch off.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
As mentioned before, some leads are practically unreachable. Up to the Head of level, it’s still alright - you can see they’re trying to hold things together somehow. But anything beyond that: absolutely insane. Messages go ignored for weeks, meetings are simply cancelled. Then there are workshops being held, coming up with absurd new ideas that there’s no capacity to implement. Projects are launched without involving all the stakeholders. And when your leads also have family issues and spend the meetings talking about nothing else - good luck with that.
Interessante Aufgaben
Tasks are in general interesting but often unable to execute because of ad-hoc things.
Gleichberechtigung
It really depends. In my team, it’s quite unbalanced. If your lead happens to like you at the moment, you’re in luck.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Not sure - we don’t have many older colleagues in the team. It probably doesn’t fit the company culture, where everything has to move quickly.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Great benefits, and you get the impression that, management is genuinely interested in being an outstanding employer. However, that’s mostly in theory. When it comes to executing projects, providing feedback, fostering development, and building a stable long-term strategy, it just doesn’t work. This makes the working conditions terrible. So many people are burnt out!
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
Glow has had a project for some time now where donations are made regularly.
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
Good benefits. Salary is OK. Hard to get a raise though.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Promotions are difficult to obtain, even though there’s clearly a need to fill the positions. This is largely because there’s no long-term strategy defining where the company wants to go. As a result, everyone is just scrambling around, often taking on far too many tasks that don’t even belong to their actual job.
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Arbeitgeber-Kommentar
Dear Colleague,
Thank you for sharing your honest and thoughtful feedback. Your perspective is incredibly important to us and we’re truly sorry to hear about your experience. This is not the environment we aim to create - we want everyone to feel valued, supported and empowered to do their best work.
To better understand and address challenges within our organization, we recently conducted an employee survey to gain valuable insights. We are now working diligently to finalize the evaluation and will discuss the results with our leadership team to collaboratively derive meaningful actions and improvements.
In addition, we are implementing a competency model designed to foster talent and support the professional growth of our employees. These initiatives reflect our commitment to creating an environment where everyone can thrive, develop and feel supported.
If you’re currently facing challenges - whether related to stress, leadership or team dynamics - please know that you are not alone. Our People & Culture Team is here for you: to listen, support and work with you to find solutions in a way that feels comfortable, open and fully confidential.
Your well-being and satisfaction remain a top priority for us. Your willingness to share feedback helps us improve and take meaningful steps forward together. Let’s connect and talk through this - because we genuinely care and want you to feel heard, supported and valued.
Warm regards,
Michelle