Like Rafting: Downhill on a rapid river, too few life-vests and nobody is actually listening
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Current strategy and politics.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Remember where you came from and what you once were. Openess, transparency, fostering initatives and caring more about employees than about stakeholders.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
strongly depending on the product you're working on. If you stay in your silo of product or so called ART, you'll be doing fine. As soon as the so-called company "leadership" is getting involved you just want to leave.
Kommunikation
The weekly info meeting gives management the opportunity to tell a lot while not saying anything. Critical questions are no longer welcome. By now there is no trust in the management and transparency is mutated in a feared buzzword. Given the massive success of the Mercedes-Benz Group in Germany, the only minimal raises and the team-downsizing indicate a certain mismanagement. The strong feeling arises that the focus is Portugal and they subliminally try to shut down the locations in Germany by not creating any incentives, like raises to match inflation.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Between staff it is very welcoming, warm and easy to get along. Helping each other and trusting each other without hesitation.
Work-Life-Balance
It's great to be honest. Nobody is forced to work in the office and nobody is forced to stay at home. Also there are no fixed working hours as long as you do your job within the legal boundaries.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
At least from my side and what I experience when exchanging with coworkers there is no trust in the managing directors any more. There is no transparency, but excuses and explanations without deeper insights.
Interessante Aufgaben
I would love to say, that the demands by MBAG increased, but truth is, that negotiations between company leadership and MBAG are at an level, where budget is decreasing and therefore budget is missing for teams to pursue their own ideas. Therefore it feels like one can only work on MBAG driven topics.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Considering previous companies I can assure that IT and office management are doing an outstanding job in supporting and enabling their colleagues
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
"Let's plant a tree" or "help the animal shelter by helping setting up their booth" …
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
You get a yearly raise, but according to CEO/CFO you are a top performer if you get up to 3%. This does not reflect your role, promotiong and/or so-called role changes, inflation, product success or long-term loyalty.
Image
In Protugal the company surely has a great image, in Germany it's behind its sister "MBTI"
Karriere/Weiterbildung
You get a budget for your self-improvement and Udemy Business for free. This budget can be used for books, courses outside Udemy or for visiting conferences. Role changes incl. promotions might be possible, but the opportunities are very limited and esp. in Germany it does not seem to happen quite often.
Gleichberechtigung
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Arbeitgeber-Kommentare
Thank you for your feedback. While we are sorry to hear your experience hasn't been the positive one we strive to create, it is very helpful for us to understand where to improve. At Mercedes-Benz.io, we aim to create a safe space for openness and transparency and, through many ways and channels, we empower our MB.ioneers to share their opinions in a way that will add to productive conversations. We rely on your feedback to understand what needs to change. In this sense, we would love to hear your feedback more in-depth. Please, feel free to reach out to the People & Culture team if you would like to discuss this further.
Hey!
1.000 Dank für dein tolles Feedback. Als responsive Organisation setzen wir auf das Prinzip von Open Work Spaces. Wir möchten den Austausch unserer crossfunktionalen Teams stärken und die einzelnen Teams nicht voneinander abschotten. Damit Du dich mit deinem Team aber auch zurückziehen kannst, gibt es die Möglichkeit einen unserer Meetingräume zu buchen, ganz einfach entweder selbst oder in Absprache mit dem Space Center.
Viele Grüße