If you are in product, design, QA or development you probably don't want to work here
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Colleagues (although many have left - more than 10 of my closest colleagues in the last 2 years)
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
- unagile mindset and way of delivering software (sometimes it took 2 months to deliver a working piece of software)
- much tech and design debt in the respective products leading to many bugs
+ all the other points mentioned below
Verbesserungsvorschläge
- hire less managers - your hierarchies are already ridiculously steep for such a small company size
- hire true leaders and not micro-managers
- pay fair salaries to actually get good people
- be role models and prove that your values are more than the currently empty words
Arbeitsatmosphäre
- employees are treated as being absolutely replaceable ("uncomfortable" employees are pushed out)
- employees are not listened to, bad survey results about superiors are not acted upon in reasonable time
- many good product and tech people have left; recently more people quit within their probation period
- instead of solving the many underlying cultural and structural problems, riskmethods appears to want to solve those problems by hiring more managers (last time I counted, they aimed for 5 product bosses while having around 8 people in the product team)
- product teams cannot decide autonomously what to work on next (even if they have good reasons/data)
- people become more and more frustrated and demotivated
Kommunikation
- bad feedback culture: people are talking behind the backs of their colleagues instead of giving direct feedback
- lacking transparency why certain decisions were made by managemet
Kollegenzusammenhalt
It was good when I started but when I left it felt as if the majority of people are primarily concerned with themselves. Team spirit is lacking (at least for the so called Go Live-team which consists of development, QA, product and design).
Vorgesetztenverhalten
- micro-mangement par excellence
- superiors are badly equipped for their jobs - at least consequences were taken within product department and the respective person is in no management position anymore
Gleichberechtigung
No women in C-level
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
Salaries are not competitive; the salary policy is unfair and intransparent: I was asked by my former superior to not share my raise/salary with my team mates