Toxic start-up environment - avoid to work here!
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Sales team before layoff
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Toxic working atmosphere, incompetent upper management, celebrating low performers
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Change the management team, hire a fair and capable HR team and create a working product.
Dont let highperformers go. Dont just hire someone because of his or her gender but of the capabilities and qualification of the person.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Unfortunately I had to change some true passages due to a complaint
Apart from the mood in the sales team due to permanent overperformance, the mood in the company was characterized by the celebration of memes and trivialities in various pointless weekly meetings. This was before a personal layoff crusade initiated by one of the incompetent founders who took over the commercial department after nearly everyone got fired ,supported by a toxic, radically vegan/feminist HR and a newly hired VP Account Management who carried everything but havent worked in a similar position for years!
Kommunikation
If you like 20 tools and more than 3 communication channels, you've come to the right place.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
With a few exceptions, one of the best, most effective and most successful sales teams I have ever worked in.
Unfortunately, half of them were made redundant in one fell swoop.
Work-Life-Balance
A lot of home office possible and freedom under the former management team in sales.
After layoff and takeover by a founder only micromanagement and time clock feeling.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
C-Level is responsible for an inhumane layoff due to personal differences.
It's generally stuck to people who just say yes, send memes, pretend to work hard in their workation or if you burn a lot of money for the company.
If you show commitment, bring numbers and think for yourself, you are always on the hit list.
Until the end, no management style was recognizable or decisions were made rationally.
Interessante Aufgaben
The task was very monotonous, as the product doesn't have much to do with SaaS and is very simple.
Cold calling in the morning, demos in the afternoon. Meeting with the company and next week all over again.
Gleichberechtigung
If you don't submit to HR's agenda, you'll have a hard time, especially as a man. Things are simply insinuated, meetings are booked or anonymous complaints are invented.
HR pushes a feminist agenda with hatred for white, male colleagues regardless of sexuality.
Every opportunity, whether it's a company party, game night or lunch, is used to try to get people to adopt a vegan lifestyle and no alternatives were offered.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
There's hardly anyone else over 40.
But no consideration is given to them.
All that matters is the well-being of female colleagues and generation self-fulfillment without performance.
Arbeitsbedingungen
The old office was very modern and you got good work equipment. There was also a fridge and a fruit basket if HR mangaged to fill it properly.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
We were encouraged to travel a lot and also celebrated in meetings when managers from South East Asia or vacation islands were invited. The whole company was invited to parties on ships or abroad. Air conditioning systems were operated with the windows open.
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
Salary was good if you overperformed. You get some Esop if you are lucky enough to stay some time but keep in mind you can be terminated at any time even if you achieve your quotas. For the commercial departments therefore not really a benefit you can count on.
Very unfair pay for individual team members and departments.
Image
A lot is being done to create a great image.
It's also difficult to tell customers how badly the product actually works
The layoff has burned the name in the start-up scene.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
One external workshop otherwise a lot of hard work and dedication from the sales team