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2025

Too much hypocrisy, not enough solidarity

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Some cool people that are great to work with.

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Generally, the company culture is declining and has been severely hit this year. Maybe it'll manage to improve over the next few months, but if not, I'll need to explore my options.

Verbesserungsvorschläge

Try more to live by your values and show more solidarity towards your employees - all of them. Or adjust your expectations.

Arbeitsatmosphäre

Was great when I first started, but has seriously declined this year. I don't trust management anymore after everything that has happened.

Kommunikation

Not clear what information can be trusted anymore. Massive funding round only one year ago, massive lay-offs only a few months afterwards. External communication, e.g. on LinkedIn, also needs to be more sensitive towards all the colleagues that had to go. Look at the recent posts and think about how those that got fired might feel when seeing this.

Kollegenzusammenhalt

Still good in some teams, but people have become a lot more cautious about what they will say to whom. Not as easy-going as is used to be.

Work-Life-Balance

Great place for workaholics who have no other time-consuming interests or commitments outside of work (family, friends, hobbies, children...). There are some internal measures to try promote work-life balance, but these are routinely ridiculed by people working late nights and weekends and even bragging about it. Some of these people have leadership roles (EMs and such) and should know better about what kind of example and expectations they are setting.

Vorgesetztenverhalten

Some people are quite good and empathetic, but others don't really behave in line with the values. Also, for technical leadership, after a certain level people should focus on strategy and not be hands-on coding anymore (and when they do, they should lead by creating high-quality architectures and code, IMHO). Also, why fire so many and only a few weeks later start hiring again? Doesn't make sense.

Interessante Aufgaben

Technically interesting and challenging, especially when it comes to cloud infrastructure topics. However, actual software engineering skills are lacking a bit.

Gleichberechtigung

It's ok, but the higher one gets in the hierarchy, the more male it becomes.

Umgang mit älteren Kollegen

Hardly any, maybe because their contributions aren't valued as much as us youngsters with the latest hottest frameworks. Also, sometimes it seems the special situations of older colleagues are not taken into account enough (e.g. when they have a family to support).

Arbeitsbedingungen

Offices are good and please atmosphere. Lots of goodies, nice coffee. In terms of compensation, market adequate, but inflation needs to be compensated for urgently.

Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein

Some good awareness, but doesn't solve the root problem about all the (air) travel that this business is causing. Cannot be compensated for by hosts taking measures to make their house a bit more eco-friendly.

Gehalt/Sozialleistungen

It's ok, but expectations are high for the next round of salary adjustments.

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Not so brilliant anymore, as far as I can tell.

Karriere/Weiterbildung

Some offers for learning and development and a dedicated team behind it. Root problem, though, is that there is never enough time and pumping out features takes priority.

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Arbeitgeber-Kommentar

Victor CabutiTeam Lead Talent Management

Dear former employee,

Thank you for your feedback. We take your input very seriously as we continuously want to improve as an employer. We are truly sorry to hear that your time with us didn’t turn out to be what you would have wished for. Below, we would like to address some of the points you raised.

Ensuring a good work-life balance is very important to us. For this reason, we give every employee the opportunity to manage their time as they see fit through a flexible working schedule and clearly defined objectives. We also have formally defined processes and guidelines regarding work life balance and even offer trainings on time management and other relevant skills that help navigate through work.

Indeed, we recently slimmed down our workforce by 6-7% in selected teams. This was an incredibly difficult decision and we recognize the impact of it. The communication was prepared thoroughly and done in a personal way. Our founders spoke to every employee involved personally, and the rest of the company was informed on the same day. There have been several company-wide as well as department-specific follow-up meetings in order to clarify the reasons and answer any questions that came up.

On the positive note, we are glad to hear that in general you enjoy working with your colleagues and find team cohesion to be good at Holidu.

We have grown substantially every single year in the past and are looking to the future with great optimism, excited for what’s to come. Nevertheless, we are grateful for your input and will carefully look at your feedback points. If you would like to share more in-depth feedback with us, we would be happy to hear from you at hr@holidu.com.

All the best,
Holidu T&O Team

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