Terrible Management
Wofür möchtest du deinen Arbeitgeber im Umgang mit der Corona-Situation loben?
Lunch
Wo siehst du Chancen für deinen Arbeitgeber mit der Corona-Situation besser umzugehen?
Read through my points.
Wie kann dich dein Arbeitgeber im Umgang mit der Corona-Situation noch besser unterstützen?
Fire managers who are blatantly incompetent. Hire more business-minded people. The rest you can read in my comments.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Friendly among staff. The company has also created a hierarchical structure that is inappropriate for a company of that size and there exists a culture of micromanagement.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
The lower staff are friendly with each other.
A lot of people left the department while I was there. Higher management tried to sell their constant hiring as growth, but according to my observations, it was trying to cover the hemorrhaging of employees.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
I experienced the worst management in my two-decade career. My manager had shockingly poor ability to comprehend organizational needs and skills at the most basic level, understand what skills are need in their team and showed absolute lack of ability to design a vetting process.
Worst micromanagement I ever experienced in my career. The worst onboarding process I have seen in my career. Asking someone to just read the company Wiki is not onboarding! I got the impression that this lack of proper management was due to the immaturity and lack of experience within the managers I met. HR, as I experienced them, displayed below standard service when it came to standard German HR practices. I needed to remind them at least 3 times until I received documents they were obliged to send me.
The fact that manager(s) are allowed to act like the way I experienced and still keep their jobs is extremely telling about what executives and leadership define as acceptable behavior. This type of behavior can only thrive if terrible management and negative leadership are either taught, tolerated or both.
Interessante Aufgaben
Mission driven-company. Interesting market.
The tools I saw were not at the industry standard for usability and process efficiency. The only reason that this way of working was accepted by the higher management and the team members themselves, in my opinion, is that the staffers are so junior and underpaid.
Gleichberechtigung
My department head spoke German to Germans and English to foreigners, regardless of the English level of the Manager or the German level of the foreigner. This led to misunderstandings that could have been avoided if I were allowed to speak German despite being a foreigner.
Other colleagues were happy that I could speak German.
The language asymmetry sent a strong message to me as a foreigner that I would not be seen as an equal by the Germans.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
Hire/firing due to inability to formulate the right hiring requirements is not very socially responsible and destructive to the lives of those duped into leaving jobs and other opportunities for a misrepresented job.
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Researchers like ResearchGate. Many researchers with whom I have spoken think that ResearchGate is an NGO and wonder about the long-term viability of the business model.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Training took the form of time for Coursera and Datacamp. The performance reviews were not tied to salary and promotion, so you have to book an extra time for that conversation.
The company is hierarchical and looking to increase the hierarchy, which is not good for young hopefuls.