SkySails Group - personal experience
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Pro: Good and lovable people, a lot of free space for own ideas and actions
Con: lack of strategy, chaotic everyday work with constant changes in goals, little to no established processes
Kommunikation
Pro: flat hierarchies, people are available, good spirit
Con: decisions are never written down, no open lessen learned from mistakes, separate divisions often don't talk to one another, up to date no product management, market Intel is disregarded
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Pro: Great colleagues, everyone is loyal and has great ethics, nice people overall
Con: none experienced
Work-Life-Balance
Pro: Good pay, lot of freedom
Con: lot of pressure and timelines, chaotic decision making interferes with work
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Great middle management experienced, with great strategy and decision making.
On upper management / investors:
Positives: everyone gets a voice and is listened to, personal issues are allowed to be voiced, good treatment of everyone
Negatives: no strategy, no accountability for decision making, chaotic emotional or spontanios idea following, naive thinking, investor and marketing driven thinking which results in overpromising and underdelivering
Interessante Aufgaben
Pro: Plenty of interesting topics
Con: no clear focus, no clear product strategy, frequent changes of tasks
Arbeitsbedingungen
Pro: a lot of freedom
Con: overall company situation feels very pressured and uncertain, feeling of a overall job uncertainty
Image
Pro: overall great image and marketing and social media, great perception by new persons or companies of interest
Con: no long term customers, high fluctuation of potential customers, classic case of overpromising and underdelivering
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Pro: attractive industry
Con: impression that company has no clear strategy, feels like there is no long term planning and financing, long term success is to be questioned