Nonconducive working environment
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
- Some nice people, helpful.
- Some very talented people.
- Nice challenges to solve. The tech lead is open to new ideas.
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
- Blaming interns for everything.
- Blaming the people who are trying new things.
- No job security.
- People take on tasks and get "bored" of them when they go beyond a couple of days. Instead of focusing on completing the marathon, the focus is on moving Jira cards from one swim lane to another.
- No actions are taken against bad actors who antagonize others.
- Too much favouritism.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Pay attention to the multiple complaints that are raised against the same individuals. There's no reason for people to lie, most of them have their personal lives and don't want to divulge in the murky waters of unnecessary office politics - but just want to focus on having a nicer environment so their blood pressure readings don't boil over.
- Tech leadership needs to identify their strengths and weaknesses and act accordingly. Promote the right people, applaud the right people, and hire the right people - you will have happy engineers.
- To the tech leadership: Take note when phrases like "This won't work", or "This has been working for the last X years" are said without doing proper research.
- Remove underperforming elements who keep antagonizing good performers with their daily shenanigans. Anyone with an ounce of self-worth is going to leave if these people keep up their unprofessional antics.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Some people go around like they own the place - asking people to shush rudely, committing code copied from AI bots, and pointing fingers at interns and colleagues without reason, while contributing negatively - both in terms of work and the mental health of others. Basic things like enabling pre-commit hooks or linting are met with rude statements. There's no scope to grow as long as these people are present.
Funnily, on the other hand, these people are very nice to the C-levels and seniors so that they can paint a fake picture of their worth and keep their positions safe.
Kommunikation
There's good documentation and proper communication channels - but sometimes lots of contradicting information. But ok overall.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
There's no point in trying to form a team to solve a common problem. If you try to review someone's code, or peer program, or suggest a better approach, you will be met with stubborn messages. Better to work alone, actually you can get more things done that way.
When I was working with an intern, we discussed a lot of technical points(sometimes a bit loudly to our discredit, well what can you expect in a full office? The only other option is to go downstairs, but we need our screens as well), but we were asked to keep quiet or given unsolicited advice like "only one person should work on one task".
There's no point in having 3-day work weeks if you are going to discourage people from having technical discussions in the office.
Work-Life-Balance
Work-wise: balanced - but the mental stress inflicted by the aforementioned toxic elements spills over to your personal life as well.
Work distribution is - simply put: unfair. Some are stuck with long-running complex tasks, and some spend a week writing a simple Nginx Dockerfile.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
From a tech perspective, nothing to complain about the leads, but there's very little visibility. Even after numerous complaints, there are very few steps that are taken to resolve the issues. Somewhat disconnected and out of touch with a sprinkle of favouritism.
Interessante Aufgaben
Plethora of things to work on, but lacks the engineering mindset to pursue some fun ideas.
Gleichberechtigung
Questionable. The salaries are not standard, your contributions don't reflect your compensation. This begs the question, is there another reason behind the unfair pay?
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
No issues here
Arbeitsbedingungen
Bad. Toxic people ruin the environment. Stressful to work in.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
Good initiatives (up until December)
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
Lower than the market, random compensation - doesn't reflect performance.
Image
Not great. Too many people have been laid off. Unless they fix the cultural issues that numerous people have raised, nothing will change.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Too many layoffs to chill and focus on career building.